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Feb 17, 2017 · Claretta’s family epitomised the snobbish, materialistic Roman bourgeoisie of the early 20th century, says Bosworth. Her father was physician to a cardinal, and the family had a...
When Clara Petacci, known as Claretta, first met Mussolini in April 1932, she was a gushing, busty young Fascist of twenty, with dark hair, a prominent nose and good legs; he was forty-nine, shaven-headed, with a jutting chin, a fleshy mouth and burning eyes, and he had been dictator of Italy for the past eight years.
Richard Bosworth's masterly new study of the life of Claretta Petacci opens with her body in Piazzale Loreto, on April 29, 1954, strung upside down next to Mussolini, her lover for nearly twenty ye...
As a child in fascist Italy, Clara Petacci (known as Claretta) was dutifully adoring of Benito Mussolini and the cult of ducismo. She gave the stiff-armed Roman salute while at school (the Duce...
Feb 22, 2017 · But Claretta and the rest of the Petaccis were not like that. Ready to declare themselves racists and Anti-Semites and to glorify Mussolini (Hitler and Franco), they were at the same time believers in Catholicism, whether papal or popular, capitalists, bourgeois, snobs and Romans.
Aug 25, 2017 · Her marriage proved to be brief and unhappy, and Claretta became Mussolini's lover four years after their first meeting. Mussolini found himself married to her whole family if not to Claretta.
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Feb 21, 2017 · 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...
