'"The Mussolini Pact"'), in full: Il patto Mussolini: storia di un piano politico e di un negoziato diplomatico,[1] is a history book by Italian author and historian Francesco Salata, first published in 1933.
[2] The book is a "history and analysis of the Four Power Pact, with all the documents,"[2] and an "eulogy when praising Mussolini's accomplishments as a diplomat.
"[4] The book was published by Mondadori in 1933, one year after the success of Oberdan, the reduced version of Salata's Guglielmo Oberdan secondo gli atti segreti del processo: carteggi diplomatici e altri documenti inediti, originally published by Zanichelli in 1924.
[1] Il patto Mussolini, sometimes credited as Salata's greatest commercial success,[5] is an analysis and history of the Four Power Pact, a non-belligerence treaty that was initialed in June 1933 in the Palazzo Venezia in Rome by France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy.
[a] Notwithstanding the perhaps excessive celebration of Mussolini, the work is considered fundamental, and an important exegesis.