Mussolini Proud of Humble Birth
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By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received 0.3 a.m. LONDON, Sunday.
“What matters it? If I am proud of anything it is of my humble birth,” says Signor Mussolini, according to the Rome correspondent of “The Times” on the announcement that he has been dis- , covered to be of historic descent and entitled to a Count's rank, and title. An enthusiastic admirer of II Duce, Giovanni Dolcetti r a 'Venetian barber whose hobby is heraldry, has published a book on Mussolini's ancestry, as the result of four years of research in the Venetian archives. He unearthed a 16th century document showing that the Mussolinis have always been tribunes since the year 996. Some attained high office. The Emperor Sigismund in 131/4 appointed Giovanni Mussolini a Palatine Count, with the right of perpetual transmission. Dolcetti announces that he has traced the Prime Minister’s descent in a later volume, but Mussolini cites the ancient Roman proverb, “Better to become famous than to be born famous.” —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 301, 12 March 1928, Page 1
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