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He was the father of Fascism, the iron fisted dictator who ruled Italy for more than two decades. During that time, he plunged his country to disaster, forming an alliance with Adolf Hitler and bringing the wrath of the world — and his own people — upon him.

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In the end, his own citizens expressed their own ruthless verdict on the man who called himself Il Duce. In this weeks, Biographics we track the life and death of Benito Mussolini. Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was born on the 29th of July, in a small village near the northern Italian town of Predappio in the province of Forli. His father, Allesandro, was a blacksmith and an atheist who was heavily involved in Socialist politics, while his mother, Rosa, was a devout Roman Catholic schoolteacher.

His mother took him to mass several times a week, while his father dragged him to the pub to learn from his Socialist friends. From the start, Benito proved to be an aggressive, rebellious child. In later life reflected. By the time he was eight, Benito was spending long hours helping his father in the furnace. He feared displeasing her, yet, this did not curb his wayward tendencies.

By the time he was nine, Rosa had become so exasperated with Benito that she sent him to a school run by Roman Catholic monks in order to instill some much-needed discipline. But the defiant Benito chafed at the strict discipline and his behavior became even worse. He got into a number of fights and was eventually expelled when he took on one of the monks.

Rosa now sent her wayward son to a less strict school closer to home. This did nothing to improve his behaviour and before long he was again expelled, this time for threatening another student with a knife.