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  Scelba Act

  Schirru, Michele

  Schuster, Cardinal Ildefonso

  Sciascia, Leonardo

  Secchia, Pietro

  Segni, Antonio

  Segre, Renzo

  Seravezza protests (1997)

  Settimana Incom

  Shakespeare

  Skin, The (Malaparte)

  Skorzeny, Otto

  Socialist Party

  Socialist Unity

  Sogno, Edgardo

  Sorrentino, Dr. Ugo

  Soviet Union

  Spagnuolo, Pasquale

  Spanish civil war

  special tribunal for crimes against the state

  Spinelli, Giuseppe

  Spini, Giorgio

  squadristi

  Steiner, Albe

  Story of a Year, The (Mussolini)

  Strehler, Giorgio

  Susmel, Duilio

  Swamp (novel)

  Tambroni, Fernando

  Tempo (weekly)

  Teodorani, Vanni

  That Awful Mess on Via Merulana (Gadda)

  Thermidor mercy

  Three Unconquered Empires (Palazzeschi)

  Togliatti, Palmiro

  Toscani, Fedele

  “Totem and Taboo” (Saba)

  “To the Fifteen of Piazzale Loreto” (Quasimodo)

  Tremaglia, Mirko

  Trial of Socrates on the Banks of Lake Como (De Begnac)

  Trizzino, Antonino

  Troilo, Ettore

  Truman, Harry S.

  Tumiati, Gaetano

  Turati, Filippo

  Turin, Cardinal of

  Turin strike (1962)

  Twenty Years and a Day (Bottai)

  Ugolini, Guiseppe

  Umberto, Prince of Savoy

  United States

  Unknown Soldier

  Un morto fra noi (A Dead Man Among Us, Longanesi)

  Uomo qualunque

  Vacirca, Vincenzo

  “Valerio.” See Audisio, Walter

  Valiani, Leo

  Vassalli, Fabrizio

  Verano cemetery

  Vergani, Orio

  Vespasiano, Emperor of Rome

  Victor Emanuel III, King of Italy

  Vigano, Renata

  Vittorini, Elio

  Vittorio Veneto battle

  Volante Rosso (ex-partisans)

  Volpi, Albino

  “What to Do with Italy?” (Salvemini)

  World War I

  World War II. See also civil war; Germans; Italian Social Republic of Salò

  Zachariae, Dr. Georg

  Zamboni, Anteo

  Zamboni, Sisto

  Zaniboni, Tito

  Zatterin, Ugo

  Zingales, General Leone

  Zoli, Adone

  Zoli, Don Pietro

  Zucca, Father Enrico

  Zucconi, Vittorio

  About the Author

  SERGIO LUZZATTO is a professor of modern history at the University of Turin, Italy. He is the author of four works of history and is a regular contributor to the leading Italian dailies La Stampa and Corriere della Sera.

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  Copyright © 1998 by Sergio Luzzatto

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  Originally published in Italy in 1998 under the title Il corpo del duce by Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a., Torino.

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  First U.S. Edition 2005

  eISBN 9781466883604

  First eBook edition: September 2014