Bosworth Richard James Boon : Claretta: Mussolini’s Last Lover

Name: Claretta: Mussolini’s Last Lover
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Author: Bosworth Richard James Boon

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Author: Bosworth Richard James Boon
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Claretta: Mussolini’s Last Lover

Bosworth Richard James Boon

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Richard James Boon Bosworth: Claretta - Mussolini's Last Lover
(the book is in English)

The top historian sheds light on the stormy relationship between Mussolini and his young lover Claretta Petacci.

"One of the best historians of modern Italy, Bosworth wrote a love story, full of passion and jealousy, but also a vivid portrait of Italy under a man who dreamed of re-creating the Roman Empire." - Caroline Moorehead, Financial Times

There are few deaths as gruesome and notorious as those of Benito Mussolini, Italy's fascist dictator, and Claretta (or Clare) Petacci, his much younger lover. They were killed by Italian partisans after trying to flee the country in 1945, and their bodies were then hung upside down in Milan's main square in a shameful public display. This provocative book is the first to explore Clara's extensive diaries, family correspondence and other sources only recently made available to reveal how the latest in Mussolini's long line of mistresses became his intimate and met her violent fate by his side.

R. J.B. Bosworth explores the social rise of Claretta's family, her naive and self-serving commitment to fascism, her vividly detailed diary accounts of her sex life with Mussolini, and much more. Full of new and startling information, the book sheds an intimate light not only on an ordinary-extraordinary woman living in the heart of Italy's totalitarian fascist state, but also on Mussolini himself.

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