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Given his father's political leanings, Mussolini was named Benito after liberal Mexican president Benito Juárez, while his middle names, Andrea and Amilcare, were for Italian socialists Andrea Costa and Amilcare Cipriani. [4] In return his mother required that he be baptised at birth. [3] Benito was followed by his siblings Arnaldo and Edvige ...
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) 31 October 1922 25 July 1943 20 years, 267 days National Fascist Party: Mussolini: PPI • PLI • PDSI • PNF • ANI [75] PNF: XXVII XXVIII XXIX XXX (no election) Marshal Pietro Badoglio (1871–1956) 25 July 1943 24 April 1944 329 days Military: Badoglio I: Independents: Parliament abolished [76] [77] 24 April ...
Duce (/ ˈ d uː tʃ eɪ / DOO-chay, Italian:) is an Italian title, derived from the Latin word dux, 'leader', and a cognate of duke. National Fascist Party leader Benito Mussolini was identified by Fascists as Il Duce ('The Leader') of the movement since the birth of the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento in 1919.
Yet Mussolini: Son of the Century doesn’t look like your average history lesson. It was partly filmed at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios, in front of the second-largest Volume screen in Europe, in a ...
The Mussolini family is a well-known family in Italy. The most prominent member was Benito Mussolini, the fascist Prime Minister of Italy from 1922 to 1943. Other ...
Mussolini was originally a socialist politician and journalist at the Avanti! newspaper. In 1912, he became a member of the National Directorate of the Italian Socialist Party (PS
Mussolini promised to revive Italy's status as a Great Power in Europe, carving out a "New Roman Empire". Mussolini promised that Italy would dominate the Mediterranean Sea. In propaganda, the Fascist government used the originally ancient Roman term "Mare Nostrum" (Latin for "Our Sea") to refer to the Mediterranean Sea.
Almost exactly 100 years after Benito Mussolini staged his “March on Rome” mass demonstration, during which his National Fascist Party seized power, Italy appears likely to hand control of its ...