LEADER 03132oam 2200493 450 001 9910162706303321 005 20210512071516.0 010 $a0-300-22626-8 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300226263 035 $a(CKB)3710000001044027 035 $a(DE-B1597)540670 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300226263 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5268824 035 $a(OCoLC)971018819 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001044027 100 $a20210512d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aClaretta $eMussolini's last lover /$fR. J. B. Bosworth 210 1$aNew Haven ;$aLondon :$cYale University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$d©2017 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) $c24 b-w 311 $a0-300-21427-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tINTRODUCTION -- $t1. Sex and the coming dictator -- $t2. A dictator's distractions: His Muse and other bedfellows -- $t3. And so . . . pause . . . to bed: Predatory Dictator meets Catholic Girl -- $t4. Sex, love and jealousy: Politics and the family -- $t5. Warring in public and private life -- $t6. The winter of a patriarch and his Ducessa -- $t7. Death in the afternoon -- $tConclusion: A diarist's tale -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tEndnotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tIllustration credits 330 $aA master historian illuminates the tumultuous relationship of Il Duce and his young lover Claretta, whose extraordinarily intimate diaries only recently have become available 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 naïve 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. 606 $aMistresses$zItaly$vBiography 606 $aWomen fascists$zItaly$vBiography 607 $aItaly$xHistory$y1922-1945$vBiography 615 0$aMistresses 615 0$aWomen fascists 676 $a945.091092 686 $aBIO022000$aHIS020000$aHIS037070$aBIO011000$2bisacsh 700 $aBosworth$b R. J. B.$0140631 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910162706303321 996 $aClaretta$92894578 997 $aUNINA