The Duce intimate
by CASAGGì SASSARI
Holy Thursday, 1934 The Head of Press Office of Mussolini, Ciano Gaelazzo, called home by the young Yvon De Begnac to invite him to an interview with the Duce, was impressed by the volume of the young author of "Thirty years of Mussolini: 1883-1915." The head of fascism was opened to the journalist to the point that the two are immediately established a current of sympathy. De Begnac did not take long to mature the idea of \u200b\u200ba full biography of Il Duce Mussolini taking advantage of the availability to put it aside, in a series of meetings, his ideas and the most intimate aspects of his life and his intellectual formation. From the interviews came out two volumes, one third saw the light after the war, entitled 'Palazzo Venezia. History of a system. " The monologues of Mussolini were recorded by De Begnac for about ten years old, whose compiler reordered them incessantly until the end of his life in 1983.
Seven years after Francesco Perfetti published them under the title "Mussolini's Notebooks" that today I proposes the mill, without changing a comma, with the same valuable introduction by the curator and the preface by Renzo De Felice (pp.642, 19 €). The great historian of fascism, emphasizing the importance of this material, revised and restructured by Perfetti, allows us to understand "some key moments and aspects of its formation and, if not its political sense, his attitude political reality. " Frequently De Begnac, whose private and public events, beginning with the brilliant journalistic career, Perfetti meticulously reconstructs the dense and intriguing introductory note, had the good fortune of being the last party of the long and tiring days of Mussolini, thus becoming the depositary of the considerations and outbursts of his top party. A "position of privilege," he called it the De Begnac that also collects stories and the most useful pieces of unknown chaotic life of the young Mussolini, who are perhaps the most interesting part of the "notebooks" that contain the most meaningful experiences of his tumultuous way, dall'agitatissimo novitiate revolutionary trade unionists and anti-militarists, the rise in the Socialist Party and up to war and to break with the Marxist world.
There is no doubt that the most interesting pages of this dense volume that caused a sensation when it was first published in 1990, are those in which the story is interwoven with savory stories of adventure and passion subversive intellectuals who had at the level of character actors Angelica Balabanoff, the true "inspiration" of Mussolini that he learned a lot from the women (just remember Rygier Maria, Anna Kuliscioff, Margherita Sarfatti), Arturo Labriola, Enrico Leone, Angelo Oliviero Olivetti, Paolo Oran, Sergio Panunzio, Georges Sorel, and above all who contributed much to solidify his conscience in the sense of revolutionary militia standing beyond socialism "parliamentarised and corrupt." In other words, it was revolutionary syndicalism, whose "Archangel" (to use the title of another book of De Begnac) was Philip Corridoni, to draw him out of the shallows of the mire into which he had ministerialism reformist socialism and made him see what would be his way.
These 'notebooks', it is impossible to summarize the contents of which are a mine of ideas and thoughts that transcend even the intellectual aspects of politics and show a participant Mussolini the great European cultural debate of the time. In the maze of current authors, strands of thought, philosophies, even minority, even esoteric and eccentric intellectual trends we can say that nothing has escaped the eye of curious Duce which he indulged more often in scholarly considerations on the morphology of the history of Spengler or newer on French literature and effervescent, demonstrating extraordinary powers.
the eve of July 25, 1943 Mussolini met for the last time De Begnac: "He looked at the cards that reluctantly submitted. He said: "Our work has lasted almost ten years. You were young when you came here for the first time." After a pause long, whispered: "Here, a life ended, but the struggle will continue". " The "President" as he always called his interlocutor, took leave of this little story that he had put into his hands without even wondering what it would do.
(of Gennaro Malgieri )
Seven years after Francesco Perfetti published them under the title "Mussolini's Notebooks" that today I proposes the mill, without changing a comma, with the same valuable introduction by the curator and the preface by Renzo De Felice (pp.642, 19 €). The great historian of fascism, emphasizing the importance of this material, revised and restructured by Perfetti, allows us to understand "some key moments and aspects of its formation and, if not its political sense, his attitude political reality. " Frequently De Begnac, whose private and public events, beginning with the brilliant journalistic career, Perfetti meticulously reconstructs the dense and intriguing introductory note, had the good fortune of being the last party of the long and tiring days of Mussolini, thus becoming the depositary of the considerations and outbursts of his top party. A "position of privilege," he called it the De Begnac that also collects stories and the most useful pieces of unknown chaotic life of the young Mussolini, who are perhaps the most interesting part of the "notebooks" that contain the most meaningful experiences of his tumultuous way, dall'agitatissimo novitiate revolutionary trade unionists and anti-militarists, the rise in the Socialist Party and up to war and to break with the Marxist world.
There is no doubt that the most interesting pages of this dense volume that caused a sensation when it was first published in 1990, are those in which the story is interwoven with savory stories of adventure and passion subversive intellectuals who had at the level of character actors Angelica Balabanoff, the true "inspiration" of Mussolini that he learned a lot from the women (just remember Rygier Maria, Anna Kuliscioff, Margherita Sarfatti), Arturo Labriola, Enrico Leone, Angelo Oliviero Olivetti, Paolo Oran, Sergio Panunzio, Georges Sorel, and above all who contributed much to solidify his conscience in the sense of revolutionary militia standing beyond socialism "parliamentarised and corrupt." In other words, it was revolutionary syndicalism, whose "Archangel" (to use the title of another book of De Begnac) was Philip Corridoni, to draw him out of the shallows of the mire into which he had ministerialism reformist socialism and made him see what would be his way.
These 'notebooks', it is impossible to summarize the contents of which are a mine of ideas and thoughts that transcend even the intellectual aspects of politics and show a participant Mussolini the great European cultural debate of the time. In the maze of current authors, strands of thought, philosophies, even minority, even esoteric and eccentric intellectual trends we can say that nothing has escaped the eye of curious Duce which he indulged more often in scholarly considerations on the morphology of the history of Spengler or newer on French literature and effervescent, demonstrating extraordinary powers.
the eve of July 25, 1943 Mussolini met for the last time De Begnac: "He looked at the cards that reluctantly submitted. He said: "Our work has lasted almost ten years. You were young when you came here for the first time." After a pause long, whispered: "Here, a life ended, but the struggle will continue". " The "President" as he always called his interlocutor, took leave of this little story that he had put into his hands without even wondering what it would do.
(of Gennaro Malgieri )
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