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Berlusconi and Mussolini

War of gossip from the Premier Mussolini

Corriere della Sera, January 19, 2011, p.. 43

Gian Antonio Stella

"I am not a barber's boy, I have a position to respect" . Settant’anni prima di Silvio Berlusconi, perfino Benito Mussolini si era posto il problema del decoro. Era il Duce, era osannato dalle folle, aveva in pugno l’Italia, i giornalisti erano così servili che La Stampa arrivò a scrivere che il suo cavallo bianco, quando lui gli parlava, nitriva «in modo significativo» . E non c’era magistrato, anche se l’adulterio sulla carta poteva essere perseguito, che mai e poi mai avrebbe osato inquisirlo. Era lui che comandava i giudici. Eppure se lo pose, il problema.

La rilettura di Mussolini segreto , diari di Claretta Petacci curato da Mauro Suttora e uscito nel 2009 da Rizzoli, alla luce di quanto accade in questi giorni, is very interesting. It helps to understand how the costumes have changed. In the country but especially on high. In the world of power. The bigwigs, in fact, page after page, seems to have almost an obsession not to give scandal. And if you do not waste the chance to flex his muscles over everything else in this matter shows prudent. Often prudent.

The rumors bother him and he says even her lover: "Your husband will speak naturally with the other officers, at table or elsewhere, and say," Mussolini, who preaches both the family, marriage, children he destroyed my family, I took the wife .... " My position is untenable ... "

The rumors about his amatory activities, rather than make him beaten by womanizer, the concern: "Who would you like to speak to the House, the Senate, to the theater, entertainment, homes? Mussolini, of what he does, he says, he thinks ... When was the first time I shot in self-discovery with Sarfatti, and I went around with her during the day. But then I was a journalist, a boy, not that I am today. Now it's different. You know what they say? "Before I wanted to be Napoleon, now wants to be Caesar and not enough. Going later became Nero "."

Clarence wants to be invited to the reception for the conquest of Albania? The Duce refuses: "It would be a scandal. I'll send my wife there, and brings us her lover. These are things that offend, can not be done, be patient. " He insists: "I want you to be the woman of mystery, that even if you know you're my lover, it is not safe, then lost the scent of love. I keep my reputation, when I log this danger. I already know half of Rome .... " And again: "We had to be more conservative. I'm not an ordinary man, are exposed to all the jokes, all the shots. " I mean, God help us if the matter becomes a blockbuster, "which is spoken in the cafes or seamstresses."

Honestly: if you put this issue even he, an atheist dictator, master of Italy che per avere l’appoggio del Vaticano era arrivato a sposarsi in chiesa e a rimettere i crocifissi nelle scuole, davvero pensava il Cavaliere, a prescindere da eventuali reati (auguri), di potersi permettere tutto?

Gian Antonio Stella (rubrica "Tuttifrutti")