Romano Mussolini, Jazz-musician Son of "Il Duce", Dies

Go here to read an obituary that goes behind subscription 7 pm (EST) Monday. It contains interesting insights into Benito Mussolini and jazz in fascist Italy."Romano and [his brother] Vittorio loved jazz in their youth despite their father's regime heavily censoring it. During Fascism, recordings by American artists, especially black ones, were released with the musicians given Italian names. Louis Armstrong was known as Luigi Fortebraccio."

And go here (htm) or here (pdf) for David Ramsay Steele’s wonderful essay on Benito Mussolini’s political career from Marxism to fascism and what fascism was really about.