Violet Gibson, a 50-year-old Irish woman, attempted to assassinate Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in 1926. Public domain via Italian Ministry of the Interior In his lifetime, just four people ...

Before becoming one of the most famous fascists of the 20th century, Benito Mussolini was a young socialist, but he split with the movement and then rode a wave of anti-socialist violence to power in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 2002, at the start of my five-year assignment as Rome correspondent for the Financial Times, a government ...

It took a perilous trip through an Alpine blizzard to show the world the dictator was dead. By Sarah Lyall In an interview, Italy’s hard-right leader reveals how pragmatism is reshaping her vision for ...