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Marriage survived 30 years despite dictator's infidelity
Rachele Mussolini |
The daughter of Agostino Guidi, a peasant farmer, and Anna Lombardi, she was born, like Benito Mussolini, in Predappio,a small town in what is now Emilia-Romagna. They met for the first time when the future self-proclaimed Ducehad a temporary teaching job at her school.
They were married in December 1915 in a civil ceremony in Treviglio, near Milan, although by that time she had been his mistress for several years, having given birth to his eldest daughter, Edda, in 1910. Mussolini had actually married another woman, Ida Dalser, in 1914 but the marriage had broken down despite her bearing him a son, Benito junior, and Mussolini returned to Rachele.
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Guidi, Rachele (1891–1979)
Italian wife of Benito Mussolini. Name variations: Rachele Mussolini. Born Rachele Guidi in Romagnol, Italy, in 1891; died in October 1979; daughter of peasants; attended school to second grade; married Benito Mussolini (1883–1945, Fascist dictator and prime minister of Italy), around 1916; children: Edda Ciano (1910–1995); Vittorio Mussolini (b. 1916); Bruno Mussolini (b. 1918); Romano Mussolini (b. 1927, who with his first wife had daughters Rachele Mussolini and Alessandra Mussolini , an Italian politician); Anna Maria Mussolini (b. 1929).
"I was already a revolutionary when I was six," Rachele Guidi told Kay Withers . "I wanted to go to school and my parents didn't want to send me. Finally my mother let me go, and I finished the second grade. But then my father died and inom had to go to work. inom earned a plate of spaghetti a day minding two sheep."
Guidi was tiny and tough, with a wealth of energy, and only 19 when she began living with