Books: COMEDIAN IN JACKBOOTS Is it possible to take Benito Mussolini seriously any more? Mark Simpson discovers that the clownish dictator always had ardent fans - and this biographer is another; Mussolini: A New Life By Nicholas Farrell WEIDENFELD pounds 25 pounds 23 (+ pounds 2.25 P&P PER ORDER) 0870 800 1122

The Independent on Sunday | June 29, 2003| | Copyright

`I grabbed her on the stairs, threw her into a corner behind a door and made her mine," wrote Mussolini, recalling one of his teenage conquests. "She got up weeping and humiliated and through her tears she insulted me. She said that I had robbed her of her honour. It is not impossible. But, I ask you, of what honour was she speaking?... She wasn't in a sulk with me for long... for at least three months we loved each other not much with the mind but much with the flesh."

Benito happened to be describing, in typically Nietzchean poseur style, the ravishing/raping of a peasant girl neighbour, ...

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