Mussolini the ruthless ideologue uses his newspaper editorship as a bully pulpit: “We demand, and what we demand we shout,” he says. “And what we demand, we pursue to the death, without the ...

Vivaldi’s masterwork, forgotten after his death, found new popularity when it was co-opted by Italian nationalists.

Dubbed "Il Duce" (the Leader), Benito Mussolini ruled Italy as the absolute ruler, even scrapping local elections and reinstituting the death penalty for political offenders. Mussolini's most ...