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Developer Takes Down Mussolini iPhone App

Will McCahill — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:30:43 CST

The developer of an iPhone application featuring Benito Mussolini—which became the most popular app in Italy—is withdrawing it over legal questions about the fair use of video and audio clips. Luigi Marino’s iMussolini also sparked not only protests from Jewish groups and others, but also hand-wringing from pundits...

Mussolini iPhone App a Hit

Rob Quinn — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:46:00 CST

An iPhone app that offers the full text of over 100 speeches from Benito Mussolini has been selling briskly in Italy. The iMussolini application has been downloaded over 1,000 times a day since its launch last week, and is in second place in popularity on the Italian version of...

Lovers Dish on Sex With Berlusconi, Mussolini

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:50:37 CST

Benito Mussolini and Silvio Berlusconi: Both charismatic leaders of Italy, both wildly popular, both…voracious sexual omnivores. The Independent takes a look at two recent publications—a diary by Mussolini’s mistress, and a memoir by a prostitute who supposedly spent two nights with Berlusconi. A sampling of the salacious details: The...

British Intelligence Had Mussolini on WWI Payroll

Will McCahill — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:19:47 CDT

Britain’s overseas intelligence service helped Benito Mussolini finance his first forays into Italian politics, newly uncovered documents show. Hoping to keep Italy on its side in 1917, during World War I, MI5 gave Mussolini, then 34 and editor of a right-wing newspaper, the equivalent of what’s now $9,500 a...

Napoleon's Novella Reveals His Sappy Side

Ambreen Ali — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:23:01 CDT

Before Napoleon the ruthless emperor came Napoleon the romance-writing softy—and his masterpiece is due out in English this fall. Clisson and Eugenie is a novella about a triumphant soldier who returns home to marry his lady—of the same name as Napoleon’s first love. The manuscript, penned when Napoleon...