Everybody seems to be having a good time here. Sword fighting was much more accepted as socially appropriate in those days. Doing this now would brand you a lunatic, and actually, Il Duce was a bit of one.
Between 1915 and 1922, Mussolini fought in five duels, winning all of them.
The duels were against the Socialist deputies Claudio Treves and Francesco Ciccotti Scozzese, the newsman Mario Missiroli, the anarchist Libero Merlino, and Major Cristoforo Baseggio.
The duels, however, were against the law, and therefore Mussolini had judiciary problems because of them.
It goes to show that if you worked for Mussolini, the first thing that you'd need to do is to take more fencing lessons.
ReplyDeleteI think it would be more accurate to say that "the judiciary had Mussolini problems because of them."
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