Caroline Moorehead is the New York Times bestselling author of Village of Secrets and A Train in Winter, as well as Human Cargo: A Journey Among the Refugees, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. An acclaimed biographer of Martha Gellhorn, Bertrand Russell, and Lucie de la Tour du Pin, among others, Moorehead has also written for the Telegraph, the Times, and the Independent. She lives in London and Italy.
Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite daughter: spoilt, venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave, and ultimately strong and loyal.
Her story is that of a Greek tragedy: a fabulous life then a terrible
fall, a widow at 35, her father having had her husband shot.
We will also discuss how this relates to modern Italian politics, how to better understand the new far right Italian prime minister and some of her policies similar to Mussolini.
The speaker will cover the following points, followed by a Q&A session:
