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Margherita Sarfatti first met Benito Mussolini in 1911 at the socialist daily Avanti! In what became a turbulent love affair she emerged as an important writer, art critic, and major adviser to the founder of the Fascist party. Even though she converted to Catholicism, she was cast aside once Hitler came to power and fled to South America in 1938.
During her long exile where she constantly feared for her children who had remained in Italy and were in danger during the war, Sarfatti decided to tell the story of her relationship with Mussolini and the role she played in many important Fascist artistic, cultural, and ideological issues until 1934. Most of Italy's modern architecture and many of its painters owe Sarfatti both their success and lasting legacy.
At first she wrote her memoir in English under the title My Fault. But in 1945 a daily newspaper in Buenos Aires, Critica, published a Spanish version in fourteen installments. In the full text Sarfatti bares all about her stormy relationship with the intensely womanizing dictator whom she knew was quite incapable of any kind of monogamous relationship. Yet the attraction remained long irresistible and that passion jumps off these pages with unrelenting strength.
Brian Sullivan is America's foremost authority on Fascist Italy. After a PhD at Columbia he taught at Yale University and at the War College. With the late Phil Cannistraro he is the co-author of Il Duce's Other Woman (William Morrow, 1993) a major biography of Margherita Sarfatti. He lives in Rockville, Maryland.
- Sales Rank: #1491360 in eBooks
- Published on: 2014-02-24
- Released on: 2014-02-24
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author
Dr.Brian Sullivan is a leading authority on Fascist Italy. After earning a PhD at Columbia he taught at Yale University and at the U.S. Naval War College. The author of many articles he is with the late Phil Cannistraro the co-author of Il Duce's Other Woman (William Morrow, 1993) a major biography of Margherita Sarfatti. He lives in Rockville, Maryland.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
MEMOIRS OF A REPREHENSIBLE WOMAN SCORNED
By bashh
For all of her money and education Margherita Sarfatti hitched her future to a thug and then sold her soul to the devil. She met Mussolini when they were both in the Socialist phase of their lives. She attempted to polish this thug as much as she could, followed him to Fascism, raised money for his party, financed his life style, introduced him to influential people and wrote a book early in Mussolini's rise to power creating the image of Il Duce as Italy's new Caesar who would restore the country to the glory days of the Roman Empire. She was Mussolini's mentor, money lender, and longest running mistress all in one. He called her his
"mascotte." Mussolini became embarrassed by her as she became middle aged and because of her Jewish roots. He traded her in for a much younger model. She left Italy and eventually ended up in Argentina, where she wrote this series of articles about Mussolini for a publication in that country. Back in Europe her sister died on the way to Auschwitz, her daughter and grandchildren went into hiding. Now her heirs want all that to be forgotten and want to mention only her contribution to art.
Sarfatti comes across as an arrogant, classless, jealous, vindictive snob who belongs to the clique of the cool kids in the high school class. She is one of the mean girls. Sarfatti writes in a style that many times resembles a trashy pulp romance with some long haired muscled hunk on the cover. "She felt his eyes burn into her." Not a direct quote perhaps, but close enough to what is in her writing. She is vicious in her descriptions of Rachele Mussolini, described as an ignorant, coarse and vulgar peasant among other things, and her replacement, Clara Petacci, described pretty much the same way, with the addition of corrupt and venal, as she sold access to Mussolini. It can be like reading one side of a cat fight.
The book is annotated by Brian R Sullivan. He provides a glossary of characters in the Fascist history as well as an extensive bibliography in his notes to Sarfatti's text. These notes would seem to be vital as Sarfatti's memory either fails her completely in some places, she makes mistakes or she just misrepresents events to make her look better or more important than she was. On the knowledge of history spectrum I fall more on the ignorant side. However I have a few insignificant quibbles with Sullivan's comments. I think that Sullivan makes at least one mistake when he says somewhere that the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef only had one other brother, Maximillian. The Emperor had three brothers, all who died before he did. He also says that Mussolini's son-in-law, Galeazzo Ciano, escaped to Germany after the vote to remove Mussolini. It is true that Ciano ended up in Germany. However the impression that I got from other reading was that when Ciano and his family got on the plane that would get them to Germany they thought they were headed for Spain. They were pretty much hijacked as Hitler especially among others was anxious to have him shot. Ciano had not been completely happy with the alliance with Germany. Again, my low place on the History Intelligence Spectrum and ignorance of European titles took me twice to Google to check that the Baron Schulenburg mentioned by Sarfatti and enlarged upon by Sullivan was not the man ultimately executed in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Hitler of July 20. And finally, in the Kindle edition of this book the footnotes are at the end of each chapter which makes it a bit of a bother to read them. Still, it is better than having them at the end of the book.
Sarfatti's articles are highly entertaining gossip and a diversion. Despite the title of the book, she takes little or no blame at all for Mussolini's rise to power and indeed blames many others for supposedly being spineless cowards for not stopping him. She makes Albert Speer look like St. Augustine. Her book and the comments of Sullivan offer some insight into the character, ethics and morals of a woman so close to one of the most powerful shapers of the century and the cost to her soul. However, the memoirs of a woman scorned might not be the best source for serious history.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Great gossip
By jack greene
I must say that I am prejudiced here. I have always considered Brian R. Sullivan the single best English language historian of Fascist Italy. I was not disappointed in this book.
MY FAULT is taken from a short “expose” written in the late 30’s and appearing later in the late 1940’s by Margherita Grassini Sarfatti. It is written by the Jewish Sarfatti, who was a mistress of Mussolini, primarily to get back at him when he started to mimic Germany with anti-Jewish laws in the late 1930’s – (see the movie THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS). This thin book is well produced. It is illustrated with some unusual photographs of the period.
Sarfatti had a relationship with Musso from before World War One and was helpful in “educating” him so he could move among the upper class. She would later immigrate to South America. Sullivan uses each chapter to take a section of what she wrote, and then fills it out as well as correcting her when her memory is either wrong or selective. His footnotes on individuals mentioned are especially impressive – many of whom the English-speaking world is unaware of.
Sarfatti talks about his family, his mistresses, his syphilis, his relationship with Hitler, children and much more about Musso’s life. Sullivan deftly works through all of this with MANY supporting source footnotes, so one who can work in Italian can follow up. There is an element of this being a “gossip” column about MY FAULT, but it is both helpful and valuable.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Disclaimer: I have co-authored three books on the fighting Italy participated in as well as two booklets on the Italian military in World War II and numerous encyclopedia entries.
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