Influence On Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was born July 29th, 1883, to a revolutionary father and a Catholic mother. He was raised in Verano di Costa, a violent village near the coast of the Adriatic Sea, alongside his younger siblings, Arnaldo and Edvige. From an early age, he was influenced by his father’s revolutionary views. Alessandro Mussolini was an ardent socialist, often clashing with the local authorities. As a school child, Benito was frequently in fights at school, whether he was the instigator or not. His father taught the young Benito to retaliate against those who have wronged him in any way. Again, Alessandro Mussolini factored into the development of a young Benito. At the age of nine, he was enrolled at a boarding school in Faenza, ran by the Salesian order. The priests and Benito clashed throughout the years he attended the school. June 1894 he was expelled from the school following an incident where he stabbed a boy in the hand with a knife. He then was enrolled in

When Benito came to visit him, he met Rachele Guidi, his eventual wife. Benito then moved to Trent in 1909 to write for the socialist newspaper L’Avvenire del Lavoratore. As the editor of L’Avvenire del Lavoratore, he primarily attacked the Catholic Church in Trent. In Trent, Mussolini maintained another mistress, Ida Dasler, who became pregnant with his illegitimate son in 1915. After Mussolini’s initial rise to power, Dasler claimed that she married Mussolini in 1914, making his marriage to Rachele in 1915 invalid. Rachele and Mussolini began living together in January 1910, though they were not married. Their first child, a daughter named Edda, was born September 1, 1910. Mussolini, like many Socialists, condemned Italy’s involvement in the Libyan War. In 1912, he moved to Milan to be the editor of the newspaper Avanti!. In Milan, he rekindled his affair with Ida Dasler and began one with Margherita Sarfatti, one of his