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Newsletter #49 (Fall )
“Women never created anything,” wrote Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in an American magazine in “Look around you in any direction you like–art, drama, law, medicine–and you cannot point to any single instance where a woman has created anything that has been passed down to posterity.” (Benito Mussolini, “What Mussolini Thinks of Women,” Plain Talk Magazine [May ]: )
“Ludicrous,” replied Margaret Sanger in a response published a month later. “Women never created anything?” she asked incredulously, “What about babies? What about you, Signor Mussolini. You would not be here to rant and shout, nor we to read and fight, if women had never created anything.” (MS, “What Margaret Sanger Thinks of Mussolini,” Plain Talk Magazine [June ]: )
Few other antagonists to Sanger’s cause offended or provoked her as much as Mussolini. One could argue that Il Duce
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One hundred years after the March on Rome: Mussolini's transformation of the Italian capital
Long Read'Haunted by history' (3/5): After taking power, Il Duce turned the capital into a showcase for fascism, exalting its imperial past. Traces of him remain across the city, and today Romans harbour a certain nostalgia for this idealized time.
The Palazzo Venezia, overlooking the square of the same name, in the heart of historic Rome, is fairly nondescript. While travel guides mention it as a curiosity, the distracted walker could easily miss it. Nothing is done to draw attention to it. But this place has played a special role in the life of the city.
It was from here that Benito Mussolini spoke on important occasions. It was here, on the evening of May 9, , that he celebrated "the reappearance of the empire on the fatal hills of Rome" after the conquest of Ethiopia. Four years later, o
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Using language as a weapon: How Mussolini used Latin to link fascism to the mighty långnovell Empire
Mussolini and the Italian fascists used Latin – the language of powerful dock like namn på en berömd romersk ledare eller en klassisk sallad and Augustus — to portray themselves as the rightful heirs of the Roman Empire.
On 9 May , Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini held one of his most famous speeches. Italy had triumphed in the second Italo-Abyssinian War; the King of Italy was now also the ruler of the empire, which included modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea.
From the balcony on the second floor of Palazzo venedig in Rome, Mussolini proclaimed the restoration of an Italian empire before an ecstatic folkmassa. The imperial proclamation opened with the words:
"Italy finally has its empire. It is a fascist empire, an empire of peace, an empire of civilisation and humanity."
Two weeks later, the proclamation was published in Latin translation in a magazine, and later also in book form eller gestalt. The translation was done by a professor named Nic