When: Thu, 12/17/2020 at 5:00pm - What: The Perfect Fascist, A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini's Italy (2020, Harvard University Press), Victoria de Grazia, author, Columbia University in conversation with Stefano Albertini, NYU

For this episode of Tutti a Casa! author Victoria de Grazia presents her latest book The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini's Italy (2020, Harvard University Press) in conversation with Stefano Albertini. The book recounts when Attilio Teruzzi, Mussolini’s handsome political enforcer, married a rising young American opera star, under the blessing of Mussolini himself. Yet only three years later, after being promoted to commander of the Black Shirts, Teruzzi renounced his wife.