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No political figure of the twentieth century has had such an impact on the historical memory and imagination of Italians (and beyond) as Mussolini. Did he personify the typical Italian fate, as researchers have often claimed? A charismatic popular leader, a Man of Providence, a traitor to the cause, a passionate courageous lover, a new Caesar - so many different manifestations!

For the sake of the most demanding reader, the author of Mussolini Alessandro Campi has collected and taken into account all the diversity and contradictions of images that have remained and layered in the collective memory of more than one generation. Simple origins, vagabond and rebellious youth, secret and depraved love affairs, emigration and hunger, passionate and unrestrained political battles, bravery in war, arrests and imprisonment, children and stepchildren, military triumphs, a devoted wife and a young mistress, intrigues of the rulers against him, military defeats, betrayal of followers, and thus public mockery and abuse of the body.All these facts of the dictator's biography form the basis of the myth and antimyth of Mussolini.

For a wide range of readers interested in analysing trends and drawing parallels to understand the course of history in general.