Benito Mussolini-II Duce  (DVD English)

Through rare, vintage footage, muchof it never-before-seen, we profile a personality who has forever changed the history of Italy. Mussolini was born in Predappio, near Forli, in Romagna, on July29, 1883. His father, Alessandro, was a blacksmith, and his mother, Rosa, was a schoolteacher. Like his father, Benito became a fervent socialist. He qualified as an elementary schoolmaster in 1901. In 1972 he emigrated to Switzerland. unable to fin a permanent job there and arrested for vagrancy, he was expelled and returned to Italy to do his military service. Agter futher trouble with the police, he joined the staff of a newspaper in the Austrian town of Trento in 1908. At this time be wrote a novel. subsequently translated into English as the Cardinal's Mistress.