“Read this letter as if it were my love testament,” wrote pert Clara Petacci to her paramour, “because it is the last one that you will get … If sometimes I felt in me the desperate attempt to free ...

‘Ah! The Germans are lucky. They always find themselves facing morons or cowards,’ Benito Mussolini told Clara Petacci, his young mistress, in one of their many pillow talks. David Kertzer’s The Pope ...

If you think of Mussolini's mistress Clara "Claretta" Petacci at all, the mental image is likely grotesque; some version of the famous photographs of her hanging upside down from a girder in an ...

ROME — Dozens of people raised their arms in the fascist salute and shouted a fascist chant during ceremonies Sunday to honor Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on the 79th anniversary of his execution ...

His posthumous career began poorly enough. The corpse of Benito Mussolini hung heels-up alongside that of his mistress, Clara Petacci, like a pig outside a butcher shop. But last week, with the 20th ...

The granddaughter of World War II-era Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared a war of her own — on Jim Carrey. Alessandra Mussolini on Sunday blasted the comic actor as a “bastard” for drawing a ...

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ROME (AP) — Dozens of people raised their arms in the fascist salute and shouted a fascist chant during ceremonies Sunday to honor Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on the 79th anniversary of his ...