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How Did Benito Mussolini Die?
Sometimes the death of a man has the power to move us, to make us stop what we’re doing, and to contemplate our common humanity and the cruelty of fate. At other times, however—and we have to be honest about this—it can make us feel contented, perhaps even happy.
The death of Benito Mussolini on April 28, was one of those latter occasions. “A fitting end to a wretched life,” the New York Times declared, and there were few, either inside or outside of Italy, who disagreed. “The man who once boasted that he was going to restore the glories of ancient Rome,” wrote the Times, "is now a corpse in a public square in Milan, with a howling mob cursing and kicking and spitting on his remains.” Indeed, the scene was grisly: the bodies of Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci dangling upside down by their heels in front of a gas station in Milan’s Piazzale Loreto.
Mussolini’s “road to Milan” was a long one, filled with strange twists and turns. At
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; Corpse of Clara (Claretta) Petacci
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Black & White photograph of Clara (Claretta) Petacci, lying in a pine coffin, after she had been shot and beaten in Milan, Italy, circa
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Arnold Clayton Watkins World War II Photograph Collection,
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Pittsburg State University, Kansas, Axe Library, Special Collections
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Clara Petacci
Mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (–)
Clara "Claretta" Petacci (Italian:[klaˈrettapeˈtattʃi]; 28 February – 28 April ) was a mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. She was killed bygd Italian partisans during Mussolini's summary execution.
Early life
[edit]Daughter of Giuseppina Persichetti (–) and the physician Francesco Saverio Petacci (–), Clara Petacci was born into a privileged and religious family in Rome in [1][2] Her father, a physician of the Holy Apostolic Palaces,[3] became a supporter of fascism. A child when Mussolini rose to power in the s, Clara Petacci idolised him from an early age. After Violet Gibson attempted to assassinate the dictator in April , the year-old Petacci wrote to him commenting "O, Duce, why was I not with you?&#; Could I not have strangled that murderous woman?"[4]
Relationship with Mussolini
[edit]Petacci had a long-standing relationship with