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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 ...
Margherita of Savoy (Margherita Maria Teresa Giovanna; 20 November 1851 – 4 January 1926) was Queen of Italy by marriage to her first cousin King Umberto I of Italy.She was the daughter of Prince Ferdinand of Savoy, Duke of Genoa and Princess Elisabeth of Saxony, and the mother of the King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy.
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 ...
Full name: Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini. Bald Head (Crapa Pelada, in Lombard language) [10] The Jaw (Il Mascella) [11] He (Lui)
After losing her husband in 1924, she wrote a biography of Mussolini. This was first published in 1925 in Britain under the title The Life of Benito Mussolini; it was published the following year in Italy with the title Dux. Because of the fame of Mussolini and the author's familiarity with the dictator, the book was a success.
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 ...
He was named after his grandfather, Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia and later King of Italy. Unlike his paternal first cousin's son, the 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) tall Amedeo, 3rd Duke of Aosta , Victor Emmanuel was short of stature even by 19th-century standards, to the point that today he would appear diminutive.