Mussolini came from a modest background in central northern Italy — an actually heavily anarchist left-wing kind of area and his father was a left-wing blacksmith. He himself rose to be one of ...

Production of the series has been a major talking point in Italy given its fascist background. Several of Mussolini's heirs ...

Scott studied 13 cassettes to observe Il Duce’s mannersisms -“which I almost went blind watching” – and read a half-dozen or so books to be steeped in Mussolini background. He diminished ...

Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When Elon Musk performed a straight-arm gesture last month, many quickly interpreted it as the fascist salute first ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Benito Mussolini is standing on a stage, taking in the cheers of a room full of boisterous men, when he ...

The Third Reich’s attack, mounted without consulting its Italian ally, had other reverberations as well. Chief among them was Mussolini’s decision to conduct a "parallel war" based on his own tactical ...