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Mussolini’s Final Hours,  APRIL 28, 1945   By  Christopher Klein PRINT CITE Facebook Twitter Google After a failed attempt to flee Italy with his mistress, Benito Mussolini was executed on April 28, 1945. On the 70th anniversary of the Italian dictator’s death, read about his final hours, the desecration of his corpse in a public square and his body’s strange journey in the ensuing years. By April 25, 1945, Benito Mussolini’s dream of re-creating the Roman Empire, much like the crumbling Roman Forum itself, lay in ruins. With the Allies closing in from the south and anti-fascist partisans rising up to seize city after city in northern Italy, Mussolini’s power base was quickly evaporating. The 61-year-old Italian dictator who sought to become a modern-day Julius Caesar had first risen to power more than two decades earlier when he became prime minister in 1922. “Il Duce” allied himself with fellow fascist Adolf Hitler and Nazi Ge...

Benito Mussolini's women Benito Mussolini had two wives, several mistresses and dozens, possibly hundreds, of casual lovers during his lifetime. Here are the most important women in his life. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini: Benito Mussolini's women  Italian dictator Benito Mussolini Ida Dalser:   Mussolini struck up a relationship with the beauty therapist in around 1909. They may have married in 1914, although no records survive. In 1915 she bore him his first child, which they named Benito Albino Mussolini. But the couple soon became estranged and Mussolini subsequently tried to expunge both Dalser and his son from his life, regarding them as an embarrassment, particularly after he married another woman, Rachele Guidi. Dalser was eventually sent to a psychiatric hospital and her son also ended up in an asylum, dying at the age of 26. Rachele Guidi:  The deterioration of Mussolini's relationship with Ida Dalser was in part due to t...