20 lire benito mussolini biography
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Coin, Italy, Mussolini (monnaie apocryphe)
- Geographical location: Southern Europe
- Current political regime: Parliamentary republic
- Current capital: Rome
Brief history
5th century AD – the fire of the Western Roman Empire was dying down. The last emperor, Romulus Augustus (the irony of his name not going unnoticed), was brought down by a certain Odoacer in 476. The latter, modest (or realist), only declared himself King of Italy. The territory subsequently fell into the hands of the Ostrogoths, the Vandals, the Byzantine Empire, and finally the Lombards.
In the Middle Ages, then during the Renaissance, for which it would be the cradle, Italy was composed of a disparate collection of independent cities, duchies, republics, and other principalities. The North was ruled first by Charlemagne and then by the Holy Roman Empire. Further to the south were also the Papal States. Later, it was Napoleon Bonaparte who put a cat among the pigeons in “the Boot” by creating a host of loca
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Benito Mussolini & The Fascist March on Rome
By Blaine Taylor
On March 23, 1919, but four months after the armistice that ended the Great War—100 young toughs, ex-Italian Army war veterans, former socialist politicians, and newspapermen met in Milan’s Piazza San Sepolchro in industrial northern Italy to form a new political party. By the fall of 1922, the Fascists numbered over 300,000 members.
Dissatisfied with the territorial gains gleaned from Liberal Italy’s participation in the war on the Allied side during 1915-1918, these angry young men, typified by 39-year-old Benito Mussolini, formed the Fasci di Combattimento, which their leader [Il Duce] himself defined as “The Bundles of Battle.” He was referring to the ancient Roman Imperial symbol of an axe surrounded by rods bound together, as their past and present symbol of authority and power.
Audacious Men
Mussolini had served in World War I as a combat-wounded Bersaglieri, a member of one of Italy’s most elite format
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Benito Mussolini: 100 Years on
Bosworth, Richard J. B.. "Benito Mussolini: 100 Years on". Rethinking Fascism: The Italian and German Dictatorships, edited by Andrea Di Michele and Filippo Focardi, Berlin, Boston: dem Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 107-126. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110768619-007
Bosworth, R. (2022). Benito Mussolini: 100 Years on. In A. Di Michele & F. Focardi (Ed.), Rethinking Fascism: The Italian and German Dictatorships (pp. 107-126). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110768619-007
Bosworth, R. 2022. Benito Mussolini: 100 Years on. In: Di Michele, A. and Focardi, F. ed. Rethinking Fascism: The Italian and German Dictatorships. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, pp. 107-126. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110768619-007
Bosworth, Richard J. B.. "Benito Mussolini: 100 Years on" In Rethinking Fascism: The Italian and German Dictatorships edited bygd Andrea Di Michele and Filippo Focardi, 107-126. Berlin, Boston: dem Gruyter