Edvige Mussolini

Edvige was the daughter of Alessandro Mussolini, a blacksmith and activist, first anarchist and later socialist, as well as a town and district councillor of Predappio, and Rosa Maltoni, a schoolteacher.

In 1940 she obtained the annulment of the sentence condemning the writer Pitigrilli (Dino Segre), accused of being an anti-fascist, to be locked up in the internment camp of L'Aquila.

[2] Her son Giuseppe Mancini, vice-brigadier of the 6th Company of the Tagliamento Legion of the Republican National Guard, who surrendered to the partisans, was killed on 28 April 1945 with 42 other comrades in the Rovetta massacre, the same day as his uncle Benito.

The diaries reveal an intimate and melancholic Mussolini,[5] frightened of Hitler, opposed to the war, and "indifferent" to the Jews.

[4] After the war, Edvige was still very attached to her brother: her memoirs were collected and transcribed by Rosetta Ricci Crisolini in Mio fratello Benito, published by La Fenice, Florence, in 1957.