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The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy
by Victoria de Grazia.
Harvard, 517 pp., £28.95, August 2020,978 0 674 98639 8 Show More
by Victoria de Grazia.
Harvard, 517 pp., £28.95, August 2020,
“... was appointed minister of Italian Africa, and conducted a series of ceremonial tours through the Horn of Africa that combined political propaganda with advanced lechery and plunder. It was here that he truly became his unfettered Nietzschean (or perhaps Kurtzian) self. Official dinners were cut short so that he could visit the local ... ”