tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post3734380860280830426..comments2024-03-28T17:30:22.269+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: Benito Mussolini: The Italian StallionHelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-90302712142256860802011-05-17T08:14:55.879+10:002011-05-17T08:14:55.879+10:00ropcorn
always good to have new readers, especiall...ropcorn<br />always good to have new readers, especially for a previously well hidden story. The Italian journalist Marco Zeni was a very determined, focused professional.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-36360464972370281832011-05-16T21:27:29.251+10:002011-05-16T21:27:29.251+10:00This post was very interesting to read for me! And...This post was very interesting to read for me! And I love the pics you have found of him here. So thank you for this post because I enjoyed it a lot. :-)ropcornhttp://ropcorn.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-39649127362401052262011-05-16T12:01:42.145+10:002011-05-16T12:01:42.145+10:00Anastasia wrote, in blogcatalog, the following:
T...Anastasia wrote, in blogcatalog, the following:<br /><br />The March on Rome was part of the mythology promoted after the event that the March, a comic opera affair, was instrumental in ensuring a transfer of power to Mussolini. Victor Emmanuel was by no means 'forced' into appointing him prime minister. If anything he gifted power to the Fascists under the advice of conservative and business circles behind the throne. He had already been told by General Pietro Badoligo that the military, loyal to the crown, could thrust Mussolini's rag-tag Blackshirts aside with ease. Even so he refused to sign Prime Minister Lugi Facta's martial law decree. So, if any one man was responsible for Italy's twenty year fascist dictatorship it was the king. The Italian monarchy would pay the price for his cowardice and lack of judgement after the war.<br /><br /><br />Many thanks, Anastasia. I am grateful for advice from someone who knows modern history very well and so I modified that paragraph straight away.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-60049211878081177622011-05-16T03:02:39.139+10:002011-05-16T03:02:39.139+10:00Fay
it is a VERY small world! Until I wrote this p...Fay<br />it is a VERY small world! Until I wrote this post, I would have guessed that very few people outside Italy would have seen Vincere. Now I am hearing that audiences everywhere are finding the film very moving.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-41891945364254147542011-05-16T00:10:53.486+10:002011-05-16T00:10:53.486+10:00helllo very interesting !! mmmm Im just about...helllo very interesting !! mmmm Im just about to watch Vincere this evening nthing changes does it I see its the French today ! <br /> Fay x my friends who visited this week are just back to Melbourne!<br /> small worldFayhtpp://amelangeetmoi.blogspotnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-39906649543564211212011-05-15T11:05:57.952+10:002011-05-15T11:05:57.952+10:00Andrew,
apart from the five children of Rachele an...Andrew,<br />apart from the five children of Rachele and the one son of Ida, there may have been children and grandchildren all over the place. Every day someone is asking for a DNA test to prove that he/she is definitely Mussolini's. One example will be helpful. <br /><br />Claudia Apriotti of Rome has claimed to be the product of a liaison of a brief relationship between the Italian dictator Mussolini and a then teenage Colonna princess. She is the seventh illegitimate child attributed to Mussolini. Apriotti claims she is the daughter of Princess Sveva Vittoria Colonna who was 19 at the time of the alleged relationship and is still alive. Apriotti says she was first brought up in a castle and then fostered to a couple of peasant farmers north of Rome.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-20461808133272499402011-05-15T10:53:34.214+10:002011-05-15T10:53:34.214+10:00Mr Doolan and Glen
funny you should both say that ...Mr Doolan and Glen<br />funny you should both say that :) <br /><br />The Independent on Sunday (24/11/2009)compared the sex lives of Mussolini and Berlusconi, and found it all very sleazy. But I carefully avoided the comparison because it didn't seem to be throwing any light on the behaviour of the Fascists in the inter-war era.<br /><br />Now I am beginning to change my mind. In 2010 a number of journalists said that Berlusconi himself was citing Mussolini as his role model. Berlusconi stated in an interview with British magazine The Spectator that Mussolini was a benign figure who never killed anyone and who sent his political opponents on holidays.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-84666115453073913192011-05-15T08:23:22.090+10:002011-05-15T08:23:22.090+10:00Interesting post Helen. When I saw Italian Stallio...Interesting post Helen. When I saw Italian Stallion in the title I thought you might be writing about that geriatric Lothario Berlusconi...Glen / Kent Today and Yesterdayhttp://kenttodayandyesterday.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-45589027113501011202011-05-15T08:03:26.635+10:002011-05-15T08:03:26.635+10:00I know little about Mussolini, but a bit more now....I know little about Mussolini, but a bit more now. There must be many descendents around.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-20274834678026829812011-05-15T03:38:57.240+10:002011-05-15T03:38:57.240+10:00Are there not certain similarities between Mussoli...Are there not certain similarities between Mussolini and Italy's current leader?P. M. Doolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16673509230835222713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-66766322614764927052011-05-14T23:57:58.114+10:002011-05-14T23:57:58.114+10:00True, but as you say, he needed to somewhat pull t...True, but as you say, he needed to somewhat pull the wool over the Vatican's eyes.Mandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11931248631361366673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-90521056106313397722011-05-14T23:31:12.154+10:002011-05-14T23:31:12.154+10:00Emm
Nobody would have cared less that Mussolini ha...Emm<br />Nobody would have cared less that Mussolini had long lasting affairs all over the countryside or had babies outside marriage or had orgies with dozens of women in one night. He might have even been some sort of idol for Italian men.<br /> <br />So I find it incredible that he'd have been anxious to totally cover his tracks about Ida and Benito jnr, even to the extent of letting them die miserable, lonely deaths in psychiatric institutions.<br /><br />The general view these days is that Mussolini was a golden hearted family man and patriot who just went a bit astray in allying himself to the Germans. Marco Zeni showed that he was not.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-17714335054763968752011-05-14T21:43:57.563+10:002011-05-14T21:43:57.563+10:00Wow, what an interesting story! What a pig Mussol...Wow, what an interesting story! What a pig Mussolini was! I'm afraid my knowledge of that period and the Fascists is lacking but I'm learning over time...Mandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11931248631361366673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-16847092201008915652011-05-14T19:29:15.674+10:002011-05-14T19:29:15.674+10:00Irena,
I did see the film and thought it was well...Irena, <br />I did see the film and thought it was well done. But I hadn't read any of the reports based on Marco Zeni's journalism at that stage.<br /><br />If I saw Vincere now, it would be much more meaningful.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-48503691059542985682011-05-14T19:27:05.588+10:002011-05-14T19:27:05.588+10:00Jane and Lance,
sometimes stories take a GREAT dea...Jane and Lance,<br />sometimes stories take a GREAT deal of time to be told. Whether or not Ida had a real wedding in 1914, as she believed, or a mock wedding, as Benito insisted, the child was definitely born in 1915. <br /><br />The story took until 2005 to emerge, after 90 years of disinterest or embarrassment or downright obfuscation. What could possibly have happened to the Mussolini and his Fascists, had the country known about Ida and the baby? After Mussolini's death, whose interests were being served by not acknowledging Ida and the boy? Very intriguing.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-75538480630013470112011-05-14T19:06:05.186+10:002011-05-14T19:06:05.186+10:00Have you seen the film Vincere, with Giovanna Mezz...Have you seen the film Vincere, with Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi. It was a very good version of the same story.Irenanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-68148385155243271962011-05-14T18:49:53.604+10:002011-05-14T18:49:53.604+10:00Hello Helen:
Truth will always out, as they [whoev...Hello Helen:<br />Truth will always out, as they [whoever 'they' are] say. This is all absolutely fascinating, an almost make believe story.<br /><br />Milan railway station, built by Mussolini, is, as you probably know, a lasting memory of Fascist Italy.Jane and Lance Hattatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16831890261259302647noreply@blogger.com