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...Born in Naples on June 29 1925 into a liberal-minded lawyer’s family, Napolitano despised Benito Mussolini’s fascist dictatorship and joined the resistance as a university student....
...He offended Italy’s political left by defending the 1922-43 rule of Benito Mussolini and suggesting, quite wrongly, that the fascist dictator had not treated his enemies badly....
...But after Benito Mussolini, the fascist dictator, fell from power in Rome in 1943, Ciampi became a partisan in the Italian resistance. He married Franca Pilla in 1946; they had two children....
...Party leader Pierluigi Bersani handed in his resignation on Friday night after a party revolt led to the defeat of his candidate, former prime minister Romano Prodi, as head of state....
...“It is not the moment,” he told reporters after a ceremony in Rome marking the 83rd anniversary of the Lateran pacts – signed on the Italian side by Benito Mussolini – that established political and financial...
...To some degree the appeal of communism was, in its turn, a reaction to the terrible legacy of Benito Mussolini’s fascist era....
...What a drag I had the pleasure recently of seeing Michael Marra, the Dundonian songwriter and ironist, who tells a story recounted by jazz fans about Romano Mussolini, youngest son of Benito, the fascist...
...Benito Romano, an attorney for Peter Atkinson, a former Hollinger executive who is being tried alongside the Canadian-born peer, suggested that Mrs Kravis’s testimony was inconsistent with an interview...
...Men and women of these generations are old enough to remember the 1922-1943 fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini, of whom many of today’s Italian teenagers know nothing....
...But this strategy is causing occasional embarrassment as self-styled Trotskyites and anti-globalisation activists challenge the policies of Romano Prodi, the centre-left leader, and as the far right seeks...
...After the 1943 fall of Benito Mussolini, the fascist dictator who ruled Italy for 21 years, a de facto civil war raged between his Nazi-backed supporters and the Communist-led resistance....
...Romano Prodi, former prime minister and European Commission president – Temperamentally, Prodi, 66, is the exact opposite of Berlusconi: studious, mild-mannered, gently affable....
...The bill would also let majority parties receive “bonus” seats a mechanism first introduced in Italy in 1923 by Benito Mussolini and briefly revived by the Christian Democrats in 1953....
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