Il Duce and His Women by Roberto Olla – review

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Il Duce and His Women by Roberto Olla – review

Sex was at the centre of the Italian dictator’s imageIn 1919 Benito Mussolini, an obscure political agitator, assembled a ragbag of black-shirted followers in Milan, and launched the political movement that was to become, two years later, the National Fascist party. The party took its name from the classical Roman symbol of authority – an axe bound in rods, or fasces.