Margherita Sarfatti (April 8, 1880 — October 30, 1961) was an Italian journalist, art critic, patron, collector, socialite, and one of Benito Mussolini's mistresses. Events 217 - Roman Emperor Caracalla is Assassinated (and succeeded by his Praetorian Year 1880 ( MDCCCLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Events 637 - Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest An art critic is a person who specializes in evaluating Art. Their written critiques or reviews are published in newspapers magazines books and on web sites A mistress is a man's long term female Sexual partner and companion who is not married to him especially used when the man is married to another woman
Born Margherita Grassini, the daughter of a wealthy Jewish lawyer, she grew up in a palazzo situated at the Canale Grande in Venice and was educated by private tutors. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law as an attorney, Counsel or Solicitor; a person For other meanings (eg the word's use in place names see Palazzo (disambiguation. Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the However, she was soon attracted by socialist ideas and escaped her parents' home at age 18 by marrying Cesare Sarfatti, a lawyer from Padua many years her senior. Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution Padua ( Padova 'padova Latin: Patavium, Padoa) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy. In 1902 the couple moved to Milan. Year 1902 ( MCMII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Milan (Milano Milan (listen) is one of the largest cities in Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy.
In 1911 Margherita Sarfatti met, and started an affair with, Benito Mussolini. Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year As a highly educated and intellectual woman, she played a significant role in the rise of fascism, only to be discarded when her lover turned to anti-Semitism, unable to credit a Jewish woman as his collaborator in the forging of a new, revolutionary ideology. Fascism is a totalitarian nationalist and corporatist ideology Antisemitism (alternatively spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism; also rarely known as judeophobia) is the Prejudice against or hostility In 1938, Sarfatti left Italy for Argentina. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. After the war, in 1947, Sarfatti returned to her home country and once again became an influential force in Italian art. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Etruscans See also Etruscan art Etruscan bronze figures and terracotta funerary reliefs include examples of a vigorous Central Italian tradition which had waned
Fascism was not inherently anti-Semitic, but when Mussolini's conquest of Abyssinia drew opprobrium from the League of Nations, he found solace only from Hitler and the like-minded. NOTE This intro is the result of careful NPOV work Please do not make potentially controversial edits to it without first discussing on the talk page To curry favour with Hitler, the race laws were passed in 1938 and Sarfatti necessarily had to leave Mussolini's bed. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Actress Susan Sarandon portrayed Sarfatti in the 1999 movie Cradle Will Rock which was written and directed by Sarandon's longtime companion, Tim Robbins. Susan Sarandon (born Susan Abigail Tomalin; October 4 1946 is an American Actress. The year 1999 in film involved some significant events and was arguably the most successful year for films released in the 1990s For the original 1937 musical see The Cradle Will Rock For the 1980 Van Halen hit see And the Cradle Will Rock Timothy Francis Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an Academy Award -winning American Actor, Screenwriter, director Sarandon discussed her role, saying:
- Margherita is someone who is a legitimate historical figure. She really existed. She really was Mussolini's mistress and was very involved in the cultural shaping of Italy's art movements. She was a patron of new painters in Italy. She came over to the United States to sell Mussolini to the American people, and she did that by using Hearst's column. For other people named William Randolph Hearst see William Randolph Hearst (disambiguation William Randolph Hearst I (April 29 1863 &ndash She wrote a column, and that was how they prepared the United States people for the concept of entering the war on the side of Mussolini, I suppose. And also she was trying to fund the war. And the complication of this was the fact that she was Jewish, and she in fact was facilitating her own crisis, which eventually would make her flee the country and live in Argentina, I believe, for a number of years before it was safe for her to go back. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. Whether or not she was just in complete denial or she really truly believed that there was a way to sleep with Mussolini and not be held accountable, I don't know. But she ended up in an awkward position. She was hobnobbing with all these rich American people. I think in the context of the film, she's somebody who has a job to do and because she loved art, she sometimes finds herself to be giving all this art away to people she feels don't really appreciate it.
Further reading
- Cannistraro, Philip, and Brian R. Sullivan. Il Duce's Other Woman: The Untold Story of Margherita Sarfatti, Mussolini's Jewish Mistress, 1993. ISBN 0-688-06299-7
- Urso, Simona. Margherita Sarfatti. Dal mito del Dux al mito americano, 2003. ISBN 88-317-8342-4
- Wieland, Karin. Die Geliebte des Duce. Das Leben der Margherita Sarfatti und die Erfindung des Faschismus, 2004. ISBN 3-446-20484-9
- Sarfatti,Margherita and Mussolini,Benito. "The Life of Benito Mussolini. ",1925; 2004. ISBN 1-4179-3962-1
External links
- A caricature by David Levine
- Cradle Will Rock at the Internet Movie Database
- The Jewish mother of Fascism (pg. 1) by Saviona Mane in Haaretz
- The Jewish mother of Fascism (pg. 2) by Saviona Mane in Haaretz
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