Word: predappio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notwithstanding his reticence, however, there was quite a celebration for Signor Mussolini. He came down from his mountain retreat at Rocca della Caminate in Romagna, to Predappio, his birthplace in the valley below, where 10,000 peasants from all parts of Italy greeted him with gifts of wine, fruit, spaghetti, cheese, olive oil. He reviewed them, told them his spirit was "unchangeably rural." They in turn filed past the tomb of Alessandro and Rosa Maltoni Mussolini, Il Duce's parents, visited the house where Benito Mussolini was born and the blacksmith shop where his father worked...
...Majesty Vittorio Emanuele III. King of Italy, after opening an art exhibition at Forli, last week visited the graves of the late village blacksmith and his wife: Alessandro & Rosa Maltoni Mussolini at nearby Predappio. Then His Majesty inspected the humble stone house in which their son Benito was born. After that he traveled to Rocca delle Caminate. Il Duce's country home. At the entrance Il Duce greeted his royal lord & master, talked with King Vittorio Emanuele alone for half an hour. It was the first time that any sovereign of the House of Savoy had honored a mere...
...fateful airplanes fascinated Europe last week. One soared up from Rome with Benito Mussolini at the controls and fought its storm-tossed way over the Apennines. Setting the trimotored ship down at last near Dovia di Predappio, his birthplace in the Romagna, Il Duce tossed his flying helmet to a mechanic, drove off to concentrate at his country home on what moves he will make this week on Europe's chessboard when he opens the Stresa Conference...
...last week the Dictator joined Count & Countess Ciano at the Adriatic sea resort of Riccione. On the beach Bambino Fabbrizio patted with his pink palms Grandpa Mussolini's suntanned pate. Later they drove to Il Duce's estate near Predappio where he was born, for a celebration in which only neighboring villagers took part. A few old friends brought simple presents. Italian editors knew better than to mention what Benito Mussolini would like to conceal, that this was his 50th birthday...