For starters, Benito Mussolini (played by Luca Marinelli) is constantly pausing the action to talk directly to the viewer a la House of Cards. “Follow me,” he says early in the first episode.

See why Benito Mussolini was considered a pioneer ... 2008 Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan. Ridley, Jasper. Mussolini: A Biography. 2000 Cooper Square Press.

Benito Mussolini was not the bumbling buffoon portrayed in popular culture, but the most powerful force behind the rise of European Fascism before World War Two. Using archival material kept across ...

A portrait of Benito Mussolini and his political rise, from the foundation of the Italian Fasci to the imposition of the most ferocious dictatorship Italy has ever known. Mussolini creates the ...