Description:In 1909 Benito Mussolini, then in his twenty-sixth year, was working in
Trent (at that time part of Austria) as secretary to the Socialist
Chamber of Labor, or trade union headquarters. He received a salary of
$24 a month, which he supplemented by giving French lessons. His work as
secretary included his services as assistant to Cesare Battisti in
editing Il Popolo, organ of the patriotic wing of the local Italian
Socialists, and its weekly supplement, La Vita Trentina. One of his
editorial duties was to write the weekly feuilleton for the supplement.
Among his contributions under this head was a serial, "Claudia
Particella, l'Amante del Cardinale: Grande Romanzo dei Tempi del
Cardinale Emanuel Madruzzo." It is this romance which is here offered
for the first time in English.