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Book Linking Pope & Mussolini Nets Pulitzer Prize
April 23, 2015 Historian David Kertzer won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography detailing how Benito Mussolini’s secret relationship with Pope Pius XI inf
Italy’s Capital Mafia Fascists, Politicians, Cooperatives & the Roman Mob
"... It is possible that Rome’s municipal authority may be dissolved because of Mafia connections, and put under the administration of an external commi
Italy The Integration of Church & State Under Mussolini (Book Review)
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Mafia Secrets Will Make Italy’s Elite ‘Tremble’
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Book Reveals Close Ties Between Pope Pius and Mussolini
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Italy Court Upholds Mafia Conviction Against Berlusconi Adviser
By Steve Scherer May 9, 2014 ROME (Reuters) - Italy's highest appeals court on Friday upheld a mafia collusion conviction against a close associate of fo
Italian Fascist Curzio Malaparte’s Lost Masterpiece
The Skin, published now in the first ever complete English translation, captures the delirium and cruelty of Europe in the Second World War in surreal and
Alfa Romeo and Italian Fascism
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Ezra Pound’s Fascist Propaganda, 1935-45, by Matthew Feldman
" ... Pound’s paymasters in Rome ... saw him as one of them, an intellectual worker for the revolutionary Nazi-Fascist New World Order. His politics were
From Gabriele D’Annunzio to Berlusconi – via Mussolini (Book Review)
November 6, 2013 Gabriele D'Annunzio visited England in February 1914. True to form, he used his time here to cheer on the slaughter of some terrified inn
How Mussolini Affected World Cup and Italian Football
October 11, 2013 As Italy gets ready to qualify for 2014 World Cup, TheHardTackle turns back time to the pre-war era of the game and discovers the introd
Catholic Sect Holds Funeral Rites for Nazi War Criminal
Photo: A workman covers part of the sentence “Welkome back captain Priebke”, painted on a wall in central Rome, Friday, June 15, 2007. "... The Soc
The Fall of Mussolini
Photo: The death of Benito Mussolini Christopher Duggan is professor of Modern Italian History at the University of Reading. His book,Fascist Voices: An In
Silvio Berlusconi Receives Seven-Year Prison Sentence
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UK Top Award for Mussolini Book
" ... The book examines how Mussolini gained the support of the majority of the Italian population and details the personal relationships they had with hi
Berlusconi’s Praise of Mussolini Leads to Calls for Prosecution
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, January 27, 2013 ROME (AP) — Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy praised the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini for
Nazis in Italy – War Crimes Report Estimates 165 Murders Per Day
Photo: A momument to the victims of Nazi war crimes in Sant'Anna di Stazzema. "... The crimes have never been atoned for nor have they been adequately addr
Italy Is Silvio Berlusconi’s Reign Really Over?
Alaska Dispatch, November 6, 2012 Silvio Berlusconi's political career has risen from the grave more than once before. This time, however, Italians are wo
Montreal Benito’s Benediction – History, Politics & Religion, Little Italy-Style
" ... Mussolini was not only admired by the Italian diaspora. Canadian politicians, as well as their British and American counterparts, were glad to have