"incorrectly labeled as Blondi (in most cases photograph descriptions were written later). In May 1942, Hitler bought another young German Shepherd ""from a minor official in the post office in Ingolstadt"" to keep Blondi company. He called her Bella. According to Traudl Junge, Eva Braun was very fond of her two Scottish Terrier dogs named Negus and Stasi. She usually kept them away from Blondi. During the course of 29 April 1945, Hitler learned of the death of his ally Benito Mussolini at the hands of Italian partisans. This, along with the fact the Soviet Red Army was closing in"
"by his wife. The car was completely destroyed but Cataldo and his wife miraculously survived. Hostilities resumed. Another boss of the Cordì clan, Cosimo Cordì, was killed in Locri on October 13, 1997. The Locri football club mourned the death of the boss with one minute of silence at the start of a game. His brother Antonio Cordì – known as ‘U Ragiuneri – took over as the head (capobastone) of the clan. Antonio Cordí was also a municipal counciler for the Italian Socialist Party (""Partito Socialista Italiano"" – PSI) and a powerful vote broker in national elections. Salvatore Cordì,"
"Autonomy Lombard Alliance Autonomy Lombard Alliance (""Autonomia Alleanza Lombarda""), initially called Lombard Alliance (""Alleanza Lombarda""), was a regionalist political party in Italy, based in Lombardy. The party was founded in 1989 as a split from Lombard League (LL) by Angela Bossi and Pierangelo Brivio, a married couple. They were respectively sister and brother-in-law to Umberto Bossi, then national secretary of LL and later federal secretary of Lega Nord. In the 1990 regional election, despite running lists only in three provincial constituencies (Como 3.2%, Varese 2.8% and Milan 1.6%), the party won 1.2% at the regional level and elected one regional"
"valign=""top""|Siegfried Brugger !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Fausto Bertinotti !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Daniela Santanché !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Others !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Total coalitions !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|316,921 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|100.0 !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Total parties !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|316,921 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|100.0 !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Coalition leader !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes (%) !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Party !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes (%) !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Siegfried Brugger !rowspan=""2"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Walter Veltroni !rowspan=""2"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Silvio Berlusconi !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Pius Leitner !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Andreas Pöder !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Fausto Bertinotti !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Pier Ferdinando Casini !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Daniela Santanché !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Others !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Total coalitions !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|299,300 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|100.0"
"early 20th century, particularly Fordism and scientific management. Fascist modernism has been recognized as inspired or developed by various figures—such as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Ernst Jünger, Gottfried Benn, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Knut Hamsun, Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis. In Italy, such modernist influence was exemplified by Marinetti who advocated a palingenetic modernist society that condemned liberal-bourgeois values of tradition and psychology, while promoting a technological-martial religion of national renewal that emphasized militant nationalism. In Germany, it was exemplified by Jünger who was influenced by his observation of the technological warfare during World War I and claimed that a new social class"
"you and we are all Lombard. [...] It is as Lombards, indeed, that we have a fundamental common goal in face of which our division in parties should fall behind"". Roberto Biorcio, a political scientist, wrote: ""The political commitment of Umberto Bossi was influenced by his encounter with Bruno Salvadori, leader of the Valdostan Union [...]. The convictions of Salvadori on federalism, the self-determination of the peoples (the so-called nations without state) and the belonging to a people on the basis of cultural criteria and not on blood, were adopted by the future leader of the League"". Since the beginning"
"Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow. In 1945, his Brigade executed several RSI soldiers in Codevigo: although Boldrini had not been directly involved, he was accused by several right-wing politicians of being responsible for the massacre, but was completely cleared of charges by the Allied commands. Boldrini has embodied the ethical and political motives behind the struggle of the Italian Resistance, becoming one of the most authoritative and credible representatives at the institutional level: after being elected to the Constituent Assembly, Boldrini became the first President of the National Association of Italian Partisans, holding this office from 1947 to 2006. Boldrini has"
"killed as well. With the killing of Orcel and Alongi, the undisputed leaders of the union movement Sicilian, the ""red biennium"" in Sicily was repressed. The advent of Fascism the following years definitively ended the period of agitation. The story of the murders of Alongi and Orcel had its ending January 21, 1921, with the killing of the man who is regarded as the principal behind the killings, Silvestre Gristina. His murder is still unsolved and is considered to be a case of ""proletarian justice"". Nicola Alongi Nicola Alongi (Prizzi, January 22, 1863 – Prizzi, February 29, 1920), was a"
"Abarno, Gabriella Segata Antolini, Pietro Angelo, Luigi Bacchetti, Mario Buda also known as ""Mike Boda"", Carmine Carbone, Andrea Ciofalo, Ferrucio Coacci, Emilio Coda, Alfredo Conti, Nestor Dondoglio also known as ""Jean Crones"", Roberto Elia, Luigi Falzini, Frank Mandese, Riccardo Orciani, Nicola Recchi, Giuseppe Sberna, Andrea Salsedo, Raffaele Schiavina, Carlo Valdinoci, and, most notably, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Galleani and his group promoted radical anarchism by speeches, newsletters, labor agitation, political protests, secret meetings, and, above all, direct action. Many used bombs and other violent means to promote their political position, practices that Galleani actively encouraged but in which he"
". Renzo Bossi Renzo Bossi (born 8 September 1988) is an Italian politician and son of Umberto Bossi, founder and former leader of the Lega Nord party. In 2010 he was elected as a member of the Regional Council of Lombardy, he resigned after two years because of his involvement in a party corruption scandal. He is known as ""il trota"" (Italian for ""the trout"") since 2008, when Umberto Bossi was asked if he considered Renzo to be his dauphin (dauphin and dolphin are homonym in Italian) and he jokingly compared him to a trout instead. Bossi was born to"
"Renzo Bossi Renzo Bossi (born 8 September 1988) is an Italian politician and son of Umberto Bossi, founder and former leader of the Lega Nord party. In 2010 he was elected as a member of the Regional Council of Lombardy, he resigned after two years because of his involvement in a party corruption scandal. He is known as ""il trota"" (Italian for ""the trout"") since 2008, when Umberto Bossi was asked if he considered Renzo to be his dauphin (dauphin and dolphin are homonym in Italian) and he jokingly compared him to a trout instead. Bossi was born to Manuela"
"an agreement with Massimo D'Alema, who had described Lega Nord as ""a rib of the left"". These talks were successful and Maroni was indicated as the joint candidate for President of Lombardy for the 2000 regional election. Despite this, Bossi decided instead to approach Berlusconi, who was the front-runner in the upcoming 2001 general election. The centre-right coalition won the 2000 regional elections and the League entered the regional governments of Lombardy, Veneto, Piedmont and Liguria. One year later, Lega Nord was part of Berlusconi's House of Freedoms in the 2001 general election. According to its leader, the alliance was"
"Attilio Fontana Attilio Fontana (born 28 March 1952) is an Italian politician from Varese, Lombardy. A member of Lega Nord, he has served as President of Lombardy since 2018. A long-time member of Lega Lombarda and Lega Nord (LN), he was Mayor of Induno Olona from 1995 to 1999. Fontana, with LN, was elected in the 2000 regional election and 2005 regional election to the Regional Council of Lombardy, of which he functioned as President until July 2006. He stepped down from the post after being elected Mayor of Varese with 57.8% of the vote in the first round of"
"in danger due to the migration flows from Africa. This created lot of protests and criticisms from the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and also the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S). After the controversy he apologised for his remarks, declaring that it was a slip and an expressive error. Fontana's principal rivals are Giorgio Gori (PD) and Dario Violi (M5S). On 4 March 2018 Fontana won 50% (Gori 29%, Violi 17%) in the regional election. Attilio Fontana Attilio Fontana (born 28 March 1952) is an Italian politician from Varese, Lombardy. A member of Lega Nord, he has served as President of"
"numerous radical friends and followers known as ""Galleanists"", including Frank Abarno, Gabriella Segata Antolini, Pietro Angelo, Luigi Bacchetti, Mario Buda also known as ""Mike Boda"", Carmine Carbone, Andrea Ciofalo, Ferrucio Coacci, Emilio Coda, Alfredo Conti, Nestor Dondoglioalso known as ""Jean Crones"", Roberto Elia, Luigi Falzini, Frank Mandese, Riccardo Orciani, Nicola Recchi, Giuseppe Sberna, Andrea Salsedo, Raffaele Schiavina, Carlo Valdinoci, and, most notably, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Sacco and Vanzetti were suspected anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during the armed robbery of a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts in 1920. After a controversial trial and a"
"medicine at the University of Pavia, though he did not get a degree. While there, in February 1979 he met Bruno Salvadori, leader of the Valdostan Union. After the death of Salvadori in a car accident during the summer of 1980, Bossi began focusing more on Lombardy. After two years, the autonomist Lega Lombarda was born. In that period Bossi met his second wife, Manuela Marrone. The Lega Lombarda would later seek alliances with similar movements in Veneto and Piedmont, forming the Northern League, of which he was the federal secretary until April 5, 2012. He became the undisputed and"
"as a federation of regional parties of northern and north-central Italy, notably including Liga Veneta, Lega Lombarda, Piemont Autonomista, Uniun Ligure, Lega Emiliano-Romagnola and Alleanza Toscana. The party's founder was Umberto Bossi, federal secretary from 1991 to 2012. After an internal crisis and struggle, the LN was briefly led by Roberto Maroni. In 2013, Matteo Salvini defeated Bossi in a leadership election and became secretary. Giancarlo Giorgetti and Lorenzo Fontana are deputy secretaries. Leading members include Attilio Fontana (President of Lombardy), Luca Zaia (President of Veneto), Massimiliano Fedriga (President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia), Maurizio Fugatti (President of Trentino) and Roberto Calderoli."
"document printed on NATO stationery, that the North American Treaty Organization was planning to move troops into Italy as a result of perceived political instability. Lombardi stated that he had received the document at the end of a meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers on May 25, 1970. The document was later rejected as a forgery by both the Italian Foreign Ministry and NATO headquarters. Riccardo Lombardi Riccardo Lombardi (August 16, 1901 – September 18, 1984) was an Italian politician. Lombardi was born in Regalbuto. A leader of the Italian Resistance against Mussolini during World War II, he formed the Partito"
"with a pro-Catholic Church stance and Europeanism with a marked Euroscepticism and ultimately abandoning much of its original pacifism and uncompromising environmentalism. Lega Nord is now often regarded as a right-wing populist party. Party leaders generally reject the ""right-wing"" label, though not the ""populist"" label. In 2008, Umberto Bossi explained in an interview that Lega Nord is ""libertarian, but also socialist"" and that the right-wing ideology he prefers is an anti-statist one with a ""libertarian idea of a state which does not weigh on citizens"". When asked to tell his most preferred politician of the 20th century, he said Giacomo"
"!rowspan=""2"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Mario Monti !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Antonio Ingroia !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Oscar Giannino !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Others !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Total coalitions !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|307,048 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|100.0 !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Total parties !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|307,048 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|100.0 !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Coalition leader !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes (%) !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Party !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes (%) !rowspan=""3"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Pier Luigi Bersani !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Ulli Mair !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Beppe Grillo !rowspan=""2"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Silvio Berlusconi !rowspan=""2"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Mario Monti !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Others !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Total coalitions !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|299,185 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|100.0 !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Total parties !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|299,185 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|100.0"
"or ""one of the boys"" to add to their populist appeal. An example of this is Umberto Bossi, the leader of the right-wing populist Italian Lega Nord, who at rallies would state ""the League has a hard-on"" while putting his middle-finger up as a sign of disrespect to the government in Rome. Another recurring feature of male populist leaders is the emphasis that they place on their own virility. An example of this is the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who bragged about his bunga bunga sex parties and his ability to seduce young women. Among female populist leaders, it"
"he becomes indwelt by the ghost of Nero. Benito Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (; ; 29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who was the leader of the National Fascist Party (""Partito Nazionale Fascista"", PNF). He ruled Italy as Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943; he constitutionally led the country until 1925, when he dropped the pretense of democracy and established a dictatorship. Known as ""Il Duce"" (""The Leader""), Mussolini was the founder of Italian Fascism. In 1912, Mussolini had been a leading member of the National Directorate of the Italian Socialist Party"
"slowly returned to active politics. On 11 January 2005 Bossi appeared on the political scene at the last house of the Lombard federalist politician Carlo Cattaneo at Lugano after 306 days from the accident. During that day, he met the Minister of Economy Giulio Tremonti (Forza Italia) with whom he constituted the political agreement called the ""Alliance of the North"" (Asse del Nord). He also met a representative of the Lega dei Ticinesi, a Swiss localist Movement led by the Luganese entrepreneur Giuliano Bignasca. During his speech Bossi spoke against the ""Europe of Masons"". During the national elections of 2006"
"Lega Nord Alto Adige – Südtirol Lega Nord Alto Adige – Südtirol (English: ""Northern League Alto Adige – South Tyrol"", LNST) is a regionalist political party, the ""national"" (hence, provincial) section of Lega Nord in South Tyrol, Italy. Like the Greens, the LNST is an inter-ethnic party. The party was founded in Bolzano in 1992, obatining 3.6% in that year's general election. Its first and founding national secretary was Umberto Montefiori, who was elected to the Provincial Council in the 1993 regional election, when the party obtained 3.0% of the vote. Montefiori, a retired official of the Carabinieri and close"
"Liberal Popular Alliance The Liberal Popular Alliance (), whose full name was Liberal Popular Alliance – Autonomies (""Alleanza Liberalpopolare – Autonomie"", ALA), was a centrist and liberal political party in Italy. ALA members were known as ""Verdiniani"", from the name of their leader Denis Verdini, who was formerly a long-time member and national coordinator of three successive centre-right parties led by Silvio Berlusconi (Forza Italia, The People of Freedom and Forza Italia) until July 2015, when he broke with Berlusconi in order to support the government led by Matteo Renzi, leader of the centre-left Democratic Party. Verdini aimed at launching"
"Nicola Alongi Nicola Alongi (Prizzi, January 22, 1863 – Prizzi, February 29, 1920), was a Sicilian socialist leader, involved in the Fasci Siciliani (Sicilian Leagues) a popular movement of democratic and socialist inspiration in 1891-1894. He was killed by the Mafia. With Giuseppe Marò and Salvatore Tortorici, he was one of the founders of the Fasci in Prizzi in 1893 following the example of Bernardino Verro in the neighbouring town of Corleone. In the early 20th century, with the agrarian strike in 1901 and the resumption of struggle for land reform, he joined other peasant leaders like Verro and Lorenzo"
"align=""left"" valign=""top""|Walter Veltroni !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Pier Ferdinando Casini !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Fausto Bertinotti !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Daniela Santanché !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Giorgio Vido !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Renzo Rabellino !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Enrico Boselli !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Giuliano Ferrara !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Others !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Total coalitions !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|3,066,038 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|100.0 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|50 !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Total parties !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|3,066,038 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|100.0 !rowspan=""1"" align=""right"" valign=""top""|50 !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Coalition leader !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes (%) !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|seats !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Party !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|votes (%) !rowspan=""1"" align=""center"" valign=""top""|seats !rowspan=""2"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Silvio Berlusconi !rowspan=""2"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Walter Veltroni !rowspan=""1"" align=""left"" valign=""top""|Pier Ferdinando"
"he was also a strong nationalist and rapidly became near to German chancellor Otto von Bismarck and the Germanophile King Umberto II. Crispi wanted reunite all the Italian-speaking territories in one nation, revealing to the German general Alfred von Waldersee his desire to annex the Austrian Trentino and French Nice. Despite his successes, Crispi lost the parliamentary confidence in 1891 after a failed attempt to reduce state expensens and prefecture against the interests of many politicians. During the momentary isolation of Crispi, the former Treasury Minister Giovanni Giolitti took over the Left leadership. By contrast with the statist Crispi, Giolitti"
"late 1960s to the early 1980s, such as the Piazza Fontana bombing. Delle Chiaie had even assisted Junio Valerio Borghese in a failed 1970 coup attempt known as the Golpe Borghese, which attempted to reinstate a fascist state in Italy. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Italian Social Movement under the leadership of Gianfranco Fini moved closer to conservative politics, adopting a ""post-fascist"" position. This was opposed by the fascist element under Rauti who created Fiamma Tricolore in 1995. The party was dissolved under Fini in 1995, who replaced it with the National Alliance. This party rapidly moved"
"Devolution with Umberto Bossi (replaced by Roberto Calderoli in June 2004). In March 2004, Bossi suffered a stroke that led many to question over the party's survival, but that ultimately confirmed Lega Nord's strength due to a very organised structure and a cohesive set of leaders. In government, the LN was widely considered the staunchest ally of Berlusconi and formed the so-called ""axis of the North"" along with FI (whose strongholds included Lombardy and Veneto as well as Sicily) through the special relationship between Bossi, Berlusconi and Giulio Tremonti while AN and the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (UDC),"
"which he was President. He was flying a SIAI Marchetti F.260, with his ten-year-old son, Franchino, and a friend, Gianni Allegri. Near Chiavari, in Liguria, they met a heavy storm and the plane crashed on Mount Anchetta. His death had considerable press coverage at the time, although little was mentioned of his glorious past with the Regia Aeronautica. Franco Bordoni Franco Bordoni-Bisleri (10 January 1913 – 15 September 1975) was an Italian aviator and racing car driver. He is one of the top-scoring aces of the Regia Aeronautica, with 19 air victories. His nickname was ""Robur"" (""strength"" in Latin) and"
"on favours for his family. Following the resignation, the Lega Nord instantly gave him the honorary position of party President. Leadership of the Northern League was initially entrusted to a so-called ""triumvirate"" composed by Roberto Maroni, Roberto Calderoli and Manuela Dal Lago. On 7 December 2013 Matteo Salvini took over as official leader of the party. On 17 September 2017, during the yearly national rally of Northern League at Pontida, an event created by him in the 1990, Umberto Bossi did not even have access to the stage to talk. Umberto Bossi Umberto Bossi (born 19 September 1941) is an"
"a television interview that he viewed Erich Priebke, a German SS officer convicted of war crimes for a 1944 massacre in Rome, in which 335 Italian civilians were killed in reprisal for the deaths of 33 German soldiers, not as an ""executioner"", but rather a soldier who acted ""with regret and a heavy heart"". He is seen as unofficial chaplain of Italy's regional party Lega Nord. In 2007, Umberto Bossi, the leader of the party, accepted his invitation to his celebration of a Tridentine Mass and said there were affinities between his party and the followers of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre."