Il Duce's Other Woman:

...he no longer saw a need to have a cultural mentor nor did he have any desire to share his power...

...To the odd but incessantly repeated notion that extent that they flourish, the state's power no individual or group ought to "impose is limited...

...within the authority of a legislature to enact Coalition in local elections...

...Rachelle and Edda Mussolini, competitors among the Novecento, and, indirectly, the Nazis in whom Mussolini began to show increasing interest, nibbled away at Sarfatti's position...

...Her "convictions," including Futurists believed that war would cleanse capitalism, condemned anti-Semitism, feminism and socialism, proved ephemerItaly of its stale past and make way for a and pointed out the inequity of the di- al...

...The marriage by certain social conventions, they re- alone...

...How the Body Snatchers here or democratic pol- WHY CAN'T GROWNUPS much of our voluminous legal codes itics...

...hands of her lover and Fas- not have been written...

...BELIEVE IN ANGELS...

...With this book, family, Sarfatti (nee Grassini) inherited it can now be said that few women have a spark of intellectual curiosity, fanned $14.95 been written back into history with such into flame by three expert private tutors- Available at your local bookcare and skill...

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...to our democratic process, the existence This fear of having an alien morality im- and involvement of the churches in the pub- "5inetar's prose style will posed seems to be about as powerful among lic square is essential to its operation in a satisfy both children and adults, as will her whimsical the American people as their powerful at- regime of limited government...

...She died in 1961...

...HIS BETTER HALF Around the author's autobiographical childhood story are text brackets that teach parents why and how to give children the safety (and reality) of angels...

...The futurists appealed to vorce laws...

...to the extent the churches are their morality" on others-as if any mean- diminished, the state's power and the abilingful law does not impose someone's ity of those who control it to pursue their notion of moral behavior (abortion on de- agendas are enhanced...

...quickly...

...eppe Cardinal Sarto, who would become looked the other way...

...Sarfatti also collaborated on Semitism threatened her well-being in Italian nationalism in terms of recreating political strategies, most notably the Italy...

...mand, anyone...

...Ultimately, her love for Mussolini "the new Rome," an idea Sarfatti eventu- plans for the March on Rome, which turned to loathing...

...anticialism...

...Sarfatti jumped into politics whom she met at the Socialist Party Semitic laws followed...

...It Amendment "from a guardian of reli- is that fear that, for example, the New York gious liberty into a guarantor of public sec- Times stokes with its periodic breathless, For the child in all of u6...

...She acted as liaison with foreign elicited more sympathy...

...Makes a wonderful gift for cist political partner for more than twen- Born into a wealthy, cultured Venetian Christmas or any time...

...She spoke five languages, traveled the Italy...

...Along with the classics and mod- TRIUMPH T11 BOOKS mentioned often in it and some pages ap- ern writers, she read Ruskin, Shaw, and box 822 peared to be in her handwriting...

...ally transformed into Fascist rhetoric and were perfected at her summer home...

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...Sarfatti was ment...

...Fascists' violent path to power, her own Sarfatti's intellect and energy, social Sarfatti became the prime minister's later suffering and exile could have stature, and blonde, buxom beauty at- publicist...

...What Mussolini did not realize was At the deepest level, WHY that Sarfatti guarded her own place in his- CAN'T GROWNUPS BELIEVE tory and kept, as proof of it, some 1,200 IN ANGELS...

...By 1913, they were saw any irony in Mussolini's intimacy Sarfatti, a criminal lawyer and soon-to- lovers...

...Sarfatti used her aristocratic livan and Cannistrato argue that Sarfatti's lini discussed, of building the Second connections to bestow legitimacy upon the influence extended to Mussolini's speech- Roman Empire upon the ashes of the Italy artists who filled the Friday night salons es, including his maiden speech before the left from World War I, a dream that at first she held at her home...

...By 1936, she found herself cut off from Mussolini's company and unable to publish articles in Fascist papers...

...But by though he would remain otherwise po- and because even Mussolini was bound 1938, Sarfatti had fled to South America, litically unsuccessful...

...Somewhat surpris- Chamber of Deputies, in which he called improved life for many impoverished ingly, given her attachment to the Social- for reconciliation with the church, quot- Italians, turned into one continuous raists who were pacifists at that time, Sarfatti ed Terence, used ideas from the Man- tionalization for using violence to crush was drawn to the Italian futurist painters...

...Pat Robertson's Christian a joyful and true story about good angels...

...Jew-and the extent of her influence on positive child-rearing:" him and on Fascist politics be a matter of Publisher's Weekly Karen Sue Smith record...

...As the Blackshirts attacked the So- world, cultivated international friendships By age twenty-three, La Sarfatti had a cialists, thus consolidating their power among an elite set of artists and journalreputation as an art critic, and ten years with virtually no government interfer- ists, wrote bestselling books, raised a famlater she ranked among Italy's most promi- ence, Sarfatti and Mussolini co-edited ily, and for a time, advised her country's nent critics, a unique position for a woman several newspapers and magazines...

...Sul- leader...

...That year Italy invaded call "the aesthetic possibilities of so- tracted the ambitious young Mussolini, Ethiopia and turned pro-Germany...

...Until then, few while still in her teens, marrying Cesare Congress in 1911...

...Yet the early dream she and Mussoof her day...

...tionship between church and state in wife only in his final years...

...The author IL DUCE'S OTHER WOMAN tents, Mussolini erased, inked over, or contends that `Surely the time Philip V. Cannistraro and Brian R. ripped out all the entries about Sarfatti, lest has come for good guardian Sullivan his liaison with her-a woman and a angels to contribute to William Morrow & Co., $25, 685 pp...

...offers the young Few women have been re- of the letters she and Mussolini exchanged and young-at-heart positive moved from history so de- over a fifteen-year period...

...Because Sarfatti had no wish to em- with a Jewess, so different was Italian fasbe Socialist, who became mayor of Milan, barrass her kind and congenial husband, cism from its German namesake...

...Carter observes, are sources of authority Another noteworthy factor is the very and power independent of the state...

...Thus, it has become possible for front-page stories on the inroads being judges to overturn legislation that was fully made by the Rev...

...proved a disappointment to her father, a mained discreet (though not secret) lovers Restored to her rightful place in histoclose friend of the anti-Socialist Gius- for the next two decades...

...She embraced what the authors Commonweal 8 October 1993: 23 journalists, wrote Dux, the bestselling biography of Mussolini, and for six years contracted with the Hearst organization to ghostwrite articles under his name, earning for Mussolini an amount that more than doubled his salary and padded her already considerable income...

...By the 1930s, though, Sarfatti began to fall from Mussolini's favor...

...she converted to Catholicism when antidynamic future...

...Around Marx and developed a love for art and a L€guor€, MO 63057-9999 1937, however, according to a sister and keen interest in its potential to influence her children familiar with the diary's con- society...

...Cesare Sarfatti ry, Sarfatti remains at best a tragic figure...

...would have to be struck down if that Underlying all this is something very written and illustrated standard were applied to every provi- basic: the contest for power...

...0 line drawings that echo Picasso's forms and Chagall'5 sense of space and flight...

...822 kept a diary in the vain hope of painting eventually became members of parliahis own portrait for posterity...

...one of whom directed the Venice store or charge your order tollDuring most of his adult life, Mussolini Biennale art exhibit and all of whom free 800-325-9521, ext...

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...Rachele Mussolini, She was impassioned about ideas, underPope Pius X. Thus is introduced one of however, detested La Sarfatti but managed stood the genuine power of art, exercised the many subplots in the book: the rela- to capture the limelight as her husband's political savvy, and worked relentlessly...

...Churches, by Marsha Sinetar sion...

...Without the let- ideas, images, and hope for our liberately or cunningly as was ters, which Cannistraro and Sullivan often cynical, threatening, and Margherita Sarfatti at the tracked down, this chilling chronicle could disbelieving times...

...it The authors convincingly argue that recast for the artists' movement she helped was she who urged Mussolini to move if Sarfatti had not been complicit in the form, the Novecento...

...He disdained her fading beauty, but there was more to it...

...ty years, Benito Mussolini...

...A reader may solely because the legislators who ap- fairly wonder: Are we talking Invasion of proved it had religious motivations...

...on the population as a In other words, far from being a threat whole...