Il Duce and the Red Alfa
Bee Wilson: Clara and Benito, 16 March 2017
Claretta: Mussolini’s Last Lover
by R.J.B. Bosworth.
Yale, 312 pp., £18.99, February 2017,978 0 300 21427 7 Show More
by R.J.B. Bosworth.
Yale, 312 pp., £18.99, February 2017,
“... their heels from steel girders above some Esso petrol pumps at the side of the square. As R.J.B. Bosworth writes in his gripping and scholarly life of Claretta, the image of her inverted body with her head of curly black hair facing downwards is the ‘visual niche’ she now occupies in the memory of the world outside Italy. A priest who happened to be ... ”
