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03698aam a2200577 i 4500 001 D17F36AE00A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170304010220 008 160930s2017 ctuf b 001 0beng 010 $a 2016044930 020 $a 0300214278 020 $a 9780300214277 035 $a (OCoLC)953985604 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-it--- 050 00 $a DG575.P455 $b B78 2017 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 084 $a BIO011000 $a HIS020000 $a HIS037070 $a BIO011000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Bosworth, R. J. B., $e author. 245 10 $a Claretta : $b Mussolini's last lover / $c R.J.B. Bosworth. 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c [2017] 300 $a vii, 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; $c 24 cm 520 2 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Ghosts, diaries and a dictator's lover -- Sex and the coming dictator -- A dictator's distractions : his Muse and other bedfellows, 1922-36 -- And so...pause...to bed : Predatory Dictator meets Catholic Girl, 1932-7 -- Sex, love and jealousy : politics and the family, 1937-40 -- Warring in public and private life, 1941-3 -- The winter of a patriarch and his Ducessa -- Death in the afternoon -- Conclusion: A diarist's tale. 600 10 $a Petacci, Clara, $d 1912-1945. 600 10 $a Petacci, Clara, $d 1912-1945 $v Diaries. 600 10 $a Mussolini, Benito, $d 1883-1945 $x Relations with women. 600 17 $a Mussolini, Benito, $d 1883-1945. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00029092 600 17 $a Petacci, Clara, $d 1912-1945. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00110158 650 0 $a Mistresses $z Italy $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women fascists $z Italy $v Biography. 651 0 $a Italy $x History $y 1922-1945 $v Biography. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Europe / Italy. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Mistresses. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01023970 650 7 $a Relations with women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01354410 650 7 $a Women fascists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177671 651 7 $a Italy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204565 648 7 $a 1922-1945 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 $a Diaries. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423794 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211031510.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170304034147.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D17F36AE00A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search