Anna Maria Mussolini
| Anna Maria Mussolini | |
|---|---|
| Born | 3 September 1929 Forlì, Italy |
| 💀Died | 25 April 1968 (aged 38) Rome, Italy25 April 1968 (aged 38) |
| Resting place | Mussolini crypt |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Italian |
| 💼 Occupation | Radio presenter |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Giuseppe Negri |
| 👴 👵 Parent(s) | Benito Mussolini and Rachele Guidi |
Anna Maria Mussolini, married Negri (3 September 1929 - 25 April 1968), was an Italian radio presenter, the fifth child of Benito Mussolini and Rachele Guidi.[1]
Biography
The last daughter of Benito Mussolini and Rachele Guidi[2], Anna was born on 3 September 1929 in Villa Carpena, in the homonymous hamlet of Forlì. At the age of seven, she was struck by a severe form of viral poliomyelitis, which caused her permanent problems and caused her father to have a depressive crisis which led him close to abandoning power.[3] She spent a wealthy childhood in Villa Torlonia, the Roman residence of the family. After Mussolini's arrest in July 1943, she was confined with her mother and brother Romano at the Rocca delle Caminate, the family's summer residence, from which it was liberated by the Nazis shortly after her father.[2]
In April 1945, with the fall of the fascist regime, Anna tried to escape to Switzerland with his mother and brother, but they were rejected at the Chiasso border.[4] The Swiss customs officers would have allowed the entry of only Anna Maria for hospitalization, but her mother refused.[5]
Having taken refuge for a few days in the villa of a soldier in Como[4], they learned from the extraordinary edition of L'Unità of the killing of Mussolini.[5][6] On 30 April, the National Liberation Committee arrested the three who were taken to the San Donnino prison. They were freed by the Americans who took them to Villa d'Este. Subsequently, the three were given into custody by the British who sent them to Montecatini Terme. Still in the custody of the British allies, they were interned in a concentration camp at Tivoli. On 20 July 1945, Anna left the Terni concentration camp with his mother and brother Romano and they were transferred to the island of Ischia in confinement.[5]
After World War II Anna did not approach politics and preferred not to use the family surname. Taking advantage of her passion for art and culture, in the sixties she began working as a presenter at RAI Radio.[3] Using her husband's surname, she hosted a successful serial, Gravure Musical, in which she hosted and interviewed well-known personalities from the worlds of entertainment, pop music and jazz.[7] However, when her origins were discovered and made public, controversy ensued and she was fired from the workplace.[3]
On New Year 's Eve between 1959 and 1960 in Cortina D'Ampezzo she met the presenter Giuseppe Negri (aka "Nando Pucci").[8] The two married on 11 June 1960 in the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe,[9][10] and had two daughters: Silvia (1961) and Edda (1963). She was operated on in 1966 due to breast cancer and in April 1968 she contracted chicken pox. Her cancer came back and the chickenpox degenerated into endocarditis.[7]
Anna died at dawn on April 25, 1968, at the age of just 38.[11] She is buried with her father and brothers in the Mussolini crypt of the Predappio Cemetery. In 2008, her childhood writings and her personal diary (dated 1942) were published in volume, together with an interview with her daughters Silvia and Edda.[12]
Bibliography
- Mussolini, Vittorio (1973). Mussolini: the tragic women in his life. New York: Dial Press. Search this book on
- Spinosa, Antonio (1983). The sons of the Duce. Milan: Rizzoli Editore. Search this book on (With later reprints)
- Baratter, Lorenzo (2008). Anna Maria Mussolini. L'ultima figlia del Duce. Milano: Mursia. Search this book on [dead link].
References
- ↑ Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco; Claudia Gian Ferrari (1998). Les Italiens de Paris: de Chirico e gli altri a Parigi nel 1930. Milan: Skira. p. 286. ISBN 9788881183685. Search this book on
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Antonio Spinosa, Edda: an Italian tragedy, Mondadori, Milan, 1993 ("Oscar story", 268). ISBN 9788804499817 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "spinosa" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Michele Ianes (22 June 2008). "Mussolini, Rachele and that little flower". L'Adige. p. 11.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Vittorio Mussolini, "Benito Mussolini, my father". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2014-06-30., documentary.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Maria Scicolone, At the table with the Duce: unpublished recipes and stories from the Mussolini house, Gremese, Rome, 2004, ISBN 8884403243
- ↑ Barbara Palombelli (22 January 2001). "Family stories. The last witness recounts daily life between Rome and Predappio: «We were a family of workers and intellectuals». «A life with the surname Mussolini without ever thinking about politics». The son Romano: from my father I only keep the old armchair from Villa Torlonia". Corriere della Sera. p. 17. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Valente, Luca (14 January 2009). "Books. A detailed biography of the dictator's youngest child signed by the historian Lorenzo Baratter. The short and unfortunate life of the Duce's "little flower". Anna Maria Mussolini, almost killed by polio at the age of 7, after the war she made a new life as a radio presenter but died in '68". Il Giornale di Vicenza. Archived from the original on 6 February 2009.
- ↑ Fabrizio Ciano (1991). Dino Cimagalli, ed. When grandpa had dad shot. Milan: Mondadori. ISBN 9788804349945. Search this book on
- ↑ Marta Boneschi (1996). The great illusion. Our Sixties. Milan: Mondadori. ISBN 9788804417750. Search this book on ("Le Scie").
- ↑ "The marriage between Anna Maria Mussolini and Giuseppe Negri. Incom Week 01934 of June 16, 1960". Roma: Istituto Luce Cinecittà. 1960.
- ↑ Dolci, Susanna (1 September 2008). "Reviews. The Duce's last daughter..." The Fondo. Magazine by Miro Renzaglia.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ Pietro Ricciardi (5 March 2009). "Anna Maria Mussolini, the last daughter of the Duce". Mondointasca online journal of tourism and travel culture. VII.
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