14 Facts About Margherita Sarfatti

Margherita Sarfatti was Benito Mussolini's biographer as well as one of his mistresses.

Margherita Sarfatti was a close friend of Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, later Pope Pius X Amadeo would further be made a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy.

Margherita Sarfatti grew up in a palazzo situated at the Canal Grande in Venice and was educated by private tutors.

Margherita Sarfatti was 13 years her senior, but shared her socialist beliefs.

Personal friend and private collector of the right-wing avanguardist Umberto Boccioni, in 1911 Margherita Sarfatti met Benito Mussolini and started a relationship with him.

Margherita Sarfatti is memorialized in Guido Cadorin frescoes in the Grand Hotel Palace, Via Veneto No 70, Rome.

Margherita Sarfatti had an influence over Mussolini's policies from 1922 until 1938, when Mussolini bowed to German pressure and enacted racial legislation through the Manifesto of Race; until then, the fascist government's politics were not antisemitic, and the party's membership rolls were open to Jews.

Margherita Sarfatti had contacts and personal knowledge of more exponents of the Italian Freemasonry, which Mussolini affirmed to badly tolerate.

Margherita Sarfatti took with her the 1272 letters from Mussolini.

Margherita Sarfatti really was Mussolini's mistress and was very involved in the cultural shaping of Italy's art movements.

Margherita Sarfatti was a patron of new painters in Italy.

Margherita Sarfatti came over to the United States to sell Mussolini to the American people, and she did that by using Hearst's column.

Margherita Sarfatti 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.

Margherita Sarfatti was hobnobbing with all these rich American people.