The Resource Claretta : Mussolini's last lover, R.J.B. Bosworth
Claretta : Mussolini's last lover, R.J.B. Bosworth
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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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- vii, 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- Introduction: Ghosts, diaries and a dictator's lover
- Sex and the coming dictator
- A dictator's distractions : his Muse and other bedfellows
- And so...pause...to bed : Predatory Dictator meets Catholic Girl
- Sex, love and jealousy : politics and the family
- Warring in public and private life
- The winter of a patriarch and his Ducessa
- Death in the afternoon
- Conclusion: A diarist's tale
- Isbn
- 9780300214277
- Label
- Claretta : Mussolini's last lover
- Title
- Claretta
- Title remainder
- Mussolini's last lover
- Statement of responsibility
- R.J.B. Bosworth
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bosworth, R. J. B
- Dewey number
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- 945.091092
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DG575.P455
- LC item number
- B78 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Petacci, Clara
- Petacci, Clara
- Mussolini, Benito
- Mistresses
- Women fascists
- Italy
- Label
- Claretta : Mussolini's last lover, R.J.B. Bosworth
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-300) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Ghosts, diaries and a dictator's lover -- Sex and the coming dictator -- A dictator's distractions : his Muse and other bedfellows -- And so...pause...to bed : Predatory Dictator meets Catholic Girl -- Sex, love and jealousy : politics and the family -- Warring in public and private life -- The winter of a patriarch and his Ducessa -- Death in the afternoon -- Conclusion: A diarist's tale
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- vii, 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780300214277
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alkaline paper)
- Lccn
- 2016044930
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- ocn953985604
- (OCoLC)953985604
- Label
- Claretta : Mussolini's last lover, R.J.B. Bosworth
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-300) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Ghosts, diaries and a dictator's lover -- Sex and the coming dictator -- A dictator's distractions : his Muse and other bedfellows -- And so...pause...to bed : Predatory Dictator meets Catholic Girl -- Sex, love and jealousy : politics and the family -- Warring in public and private life -- The winter of a patriarch and his Ducessa -- Death in the afternoon -- Conclusion: A diarist's tale
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- vii, 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780300214277
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alkaline paper)
- Lccn
- 2016044930
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- ocn953985604
- (OCoLC)953985604
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