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Mussolini as revealed in his political speeches (November 1914 - August 1923) by Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945). Translated by Bernardo Quaranta di San Severino (1870 - 1934)

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Benito Mussolini was an Italian journalist and politician, the leader of the National Fascist Party. He grew up as a violent bully, and the characteristics developed in childhood aided his upward career and later rule in Italy. He was also an excellent orator, and this was one of the qualities that helped him rise to power.

This project contains over 60 of his earlier speeches, covering the years 1914-1923: from soon after his expulsion from the Socialist Party for supporting WWI, to his becoming Prime Minister yet still submitting outwardly to democratic rule. (He seized power, threw off the democratic yoke, and became dictator in 1925-1927.) ( TriciaG)
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Post by KevinS »

13 and 31, please.
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You're in. Have fun channeling your inner fascist! :roll:
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Section 31

https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/mussolinispeeches_31_mussolini_128kb.mp3 (5:48)

Is this how you would like us to handle the parenthetical remarks?
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It's cumbersome, IMHO. Usually one can change one's voice a bit for such asides - with a slight pause on each side of it - and that would be sufficient, as opposed to an "open parenthesis, close parenthesis" notation.

But I'm OK leaving this as is, if you don't want to experiment. :)
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Could I read the introduction please?
Other than "Mussolini was the Hitler in the south" I have never learnt much about Italian Fascism.
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Sure, first section is yours - and I agree. We know so much about Hitler, but Mussolini is the one who basically taught Hitler. Hubby and I saw a 1-hour documentary on Mussolini, and it was quite enlightening (and was the source of many of my ideas in the intro).
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Moving to Readers Wanted!
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A very small matter...

I'm not taken to this page when I click from my Reader's Page.
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Fixed. That's what happens when the MC doesn't put the forum web address in the project's database record. :roll:
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TriciaG wrote: January 16th, 2020, 8:15 am Fixed. That's what happens when the MC doesn't put the forum web address in the project's database record. :roll:
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Post by KevinS »

27, 28, and 29, please.

These short pieces are about all my voice can handle right now. I hope I'm not being greedy in picking them up.
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There are 70 sections. Grabbing 3 at a time isn't being selfish (even just grabbing smaller ones).

Got a meeting this evening, so no PL'ing for me. See you on the flip side...
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