Tag: Benito Mussolini

Smooth as Silk: The Scalamandre Story

  Italian born Franco Scalamandré arrived in America in 1923 at the age of twenty-six, with one good suit and a dream. He fled his homeland in fear of imprisonment after a confrontation with Benito Mussolini. Scalamandré began a new life in the land of opportunity and seventy-five years later,

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Wendy Diamond

Villa Feltrinelli Lake Garda, Italy

From Mutts to Mussolini, this beautiful waterfront villa has history. Its history intriguing, Villa Feltrinelli was once the famed quarters of Benito Mussolini.  He stayed at the villa situated on the shore of Lake Garda, Italy towards the end of World War II, as the German government attempted and failed

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