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Benito Mussolini

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Benito Mussolini

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Auction Date:2011 Apr 13 @ 19:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Early and boldly-penned ALS in Italian, signed “Mussolini,” one page, 8.5 x 11, Il Popolo d’Italia letterhead, August 30, 1921. Letter to an engineer stating that discussing the matter of his resignation from the newspaper is useless as he has already made the announcement he is leaving, and he cannot make an exception and discuss the matter further. In part (translated): “By now all controversy has become pointless…I already announced in the P. that I shall not publish any further articles concerning my resignation.” In very good condition, with a central horizontal and vertical fold, uniform mild toning from previous display, light creasing along the right edge, and small chip to top left corner. This historically significant correspondence is one of the stepping stones that took Mussolini, and Italy, on a course that led them toward World War II. By 1922, crowds of peasants were spellbound by Mussolini’s magnetism and oratory, and King Victor Emmanuel III was forced to bow before a Fascist march on Rome to seize the government. A pivotal part of world history. Accompanied by its original Walter Benjamin Autographs Inc. wrapping and description.