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Clara "Claretta" Petacci (Italian: [klaˈretta peˈtattʃi]; 28 February 1912 – 28 April 1945) was a mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. She was killed by Italian partisans during Mussolini's summary execution .
Mar 31, 2018 · On 25 April 1945, allied troops were advancing into northern Italy, and the collapse of the Salò Republic was imminent. Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci set out for Switzerland, intending to board a plane and escape to Spain.
She became forever associated with the Italian dictator. It’s time to take a look at the fascinating life of Mussolini’s mistress and how she went from a swooning teenager to one of the most important figures in the life of Italy’s most famous strongman.
Apr 28, 2015 · Mussolini stormed out of the palace and fled Milan with his 33-year-old mistress, Clara Petacci, in the 1939 Alfa Romeo sports car he had bought as a gift for his girlfriend.
Nov 26, 2023 · The deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, had been executed on Saturday near Como, Italy. The bodies had then been brought by truck to the Piazzale...
Mar 22, 2017 · Over the last decade a magnificent new source has become available to historians in the form of a diary composed by Mussolini’s last lover, Claretta Petacci, twenty-nine years his junior and executed with him in April 1945.
Clara Petacci was Benito Mussolini’s lover for twelve years, from 1933 until their deaths on April 28, 1945.
MUSSOLINI and Claretta Petacci, his mistress, were captured by the Italian Partisans on Friday, April 27, 1945, at Dongo, Province of Como. They were shot the next day on a deserted country road...
Nov 23, 2014 · It was Clara Petacci who has gone down in history as Mussolini’s most famous lover. In April 1945, Italian partisans shot her and Il Duce and hung their bodies upside down in Milan’s Piazzale Loreto.
Mar 5, 2003 · Scholars of Italian history have waited more than half a century to get their hands on the correspondence Claretta Petacci sent to her lover, Benito Mussolini, between 1933 and 1945.
