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Author Bosworth, R. J. B., author.

Title Claretta : Mussolini's last lover / R.J.B. Bosworth.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017.

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Summary "Few deaths are as gruesome and infamous as those of Benito Mussolini, Italy's fascist dictator, and Claretta (or Clara) Petacci, his much-younger lover. Shot dead by Italian partisans after attempting to flee the country in 1945, the couple's bodies were then hanged upside down in Milan's main square in ignominious public display. This provocative book is the first to mine Clara's extensive diaries, family correspondence, and other sources to discover how the last in Mussolini's long line of lovers became his intimate and how she came to her violent fate at his side. R.J.B. Bosworth explores the social climbing of Claretta's family, her naive and self-interested commitment to fascism, her diary's graphically detailed accounts of sexual life with Mussolini, and much more. Brimful of new and arresting information, the book sheds intimate light not only on an ordinary-extraordinary woman living at the heart of Italy's totalitarian fascist state but also on Mussolini himself"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Ghosts, diaries and a dictator's lover -- Sex and the coming dictator -- A dictator's distractions : his Muse and other bedfellows, 1922-36 -- And so ... pause ... to bed : Predatory Dictator meets Catholic Girl, 1932-7 -- Sex, love and jealousy : politics and the family, 1937-40 -- Warring in public and private life, 1941-3 -- The winter of a patriarch and his Ducessa -- Death in the afternoon -- Conclusion: A diarist's tale.
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Subject Petacci, Clara, 1912-1945.
Petacci, Clara, 1912-1945.
Petacci, Clara, 1912-1945 -- Diaries.
Genre/Form Diaries.
Subject Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 -- Relations with women.
Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945.
Relations with women.
Mistresses -- Italy -- Biography.
Mistresses.
Italy.
Women fascists -- Italy -- Biography.
Women fascists.
Italy -- History -- 1922-1945 -- Biography.
History.
Chronological Term 1922-1945
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Diaries.
Other Form: Print version: Bosworth, R.J.B. Claretta. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017 9780300214277 (DLC) 2016044930 (OCoLC)953985604
ISBN 9780300226263 (electronic book)
0300226268 (electronic book)
9780300214277
0300214278