Mussolini. New York: Italy Publishing Co., 1923.

Bound in one volume (with Guido Podrecca's Il fascismo, q.v.), not separately paginated.

This, the first  (pp. 1- 174) of two works bound together, is that of De Fiori (b. Venezia, 1890; active 1910s-1940s), who knew Mussolini “intimamente” from contact during readings and from the time that Mussolini was expelled from the Socialist Party in Italy.

Earlier, in 1915, De Fiori left Milan to go to Barre, Vermont, in the years when Luigi Galleani was there, in order to take on the role of secretary of the Cooperative Union. In 1916, when another newspaper he worked for, the Rinascenza Italica, merged with Il Messagero in Paterson, De Fiori moved to New York to direct the new newspaper, the first and only one in America to publish Mussolini’s war diaries.

In 1921–1922, De Fiori was involved in organizing in New York the first Fascist Party cell outside of Italy. In 1928, Dutton published his obviously admiring Mussolini — the Man of Destiny in the U.S.

Vittorio E. De Fiori

Italy Publishing Co. [Printed by Il Carroccio Publ. Co.]

1923

21 x 15cm; 351 p.

Italian