Book Review: My Autobiography by Benito Mussolini (Part I)
“It is a book that is historically valuable, giving us, as it does, intimate pictures of Fascism in theory and practice.” – From the Editor
“It is a book that is historically valuable, giving us, as it does, intimate pictures of Fascism in theory and practice.” – From the Editor
“Pistoia! Pistoia! why have you not decreed
to turn yourself to ashes and end your days,
rather than to spread the evil of your seed!”
– Inferno, XXV. 10-12 (trans. by Ciardi).
“Once you have carefully read this confutation of Brother Riccoldo, then you will learn for the first time how empty this religion is, how worthless, how lacking in substance; and how it has nothing of importance to say for our present day.”
– Bartholemaeus de Monte Arduo to Ferdinand II of Aragon