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Letters show Mussolini's daughter love for Communist
news. ^ | Apr 17 | Eliza Apperly

Posted on 04/18/2009 2:26:36 PM PDT by JoeProBono

Thirty-six passionate letters discovered on the Italian island of Lipari have revealed an illicit love affair between the daughter of former Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and a prominent Communist partisan. Written in French, English and Italian, the secret correspondence has inspired a new book: "Edda Ciano and the Communist. The unspeakable passion of the Duce's Daughter."

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: mussolini

1 posted on 04/18/2009 2:26:36 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

...just in time for the Fourth of July. I wonder if it’ll be at the library.


2 posted on 04/18/2009 2:28:20 PM PDT by Winstons Julia
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To: JoeProBono

I guess she was hot to Trotzky.


3 posted on 04/18/2009 2:30:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway (Are the Good Times Really Over?)
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To: JoeProBono

Well Benito was a socialist before he thaught that having a party on it’s own is even better.


4 posted on 04/18/2009 2:31:54 PM PDT by SolidWood (Palin: "We do not want to becomes slaves of Washington.")
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To: nickcarraway

Arancha de Benito


5 posted on 04/18/2009 2:34:40 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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The article suggests that he was the great love of her life, and yet he left her for the woman who became his wife, while she never married. How sad. How lonely and wretched her life must have been.


6 posted on 04/18/2009 2:34:50 PM PDT by ottbmare (Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Obama!)
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To: nickcarraway
Whoa! That's a homerun!

She diddled while Rome burned.
7 posted on 04/18/2009 2:42:09 PM PDT by jobim
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To: JoeProBono

Sean Penn’s next Oscar.


8 posted on 04/18/2009 2:54:06 PM PDT by Fintan
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9 posted on 04/18/2009 2:56:21 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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Dude not guilty. Wrong yes but technicalities can be waved.


10 posted on 04/18/2009 2:58:28 PM PDT by allmost
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11 posted on 04/18/2009 3:23:55 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: allmost

Kids always rebel. He dumped her so enough is said.


12 posted on 04/18/2009 3:43:16 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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She don’t look dumped.


13 posted on 04/18/2009 3:45:33 PM PDT by allmost
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