Claretta: Mussolini's Last Lover

by R.J.B. Bosworth and Richard J.B. Bosworth

Book Overview

A master historian illuminates the tumultuous relationship of Il Duce and his young lover Claretta, whose extraordinarily intimate diaries only recently have become available

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300214278
• ISBN13: 9780300214277
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"