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ITALY GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER OF DICTATOR BENITO MUSSOLINI IS BAPTISED
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(22 Oct 1995) English/Nat • • The newest member of the Mussolini clan has been baptised in the Italian town where the dictator great granddaughter was born and buried. • • The child's mother is Alessandra Mussolini, a parliamentary deputy for a right wing party and granddaughter of the man known as Il Duce. • • Also at the ceremony in Predappio were the dictator's two sons, Romano and Vittorio Mussolini. • • The church of Predappio in the central Romagna region where the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was baptised and in whose crypt he lies buried. • • Today his great granddaughter Caterina Romana Floriani was also baptised here. • • Among the family attending the ceremony were Il Duce's two sons, Romano, who is Alessandra's father and a jazz musician, and Vittorio. • • But all eyes were on the new member of the Mussolini clan, baby Caterina, who arrived with her mother, the right wing parliamentary deputy Alessandra. • • Her mother looked delighted. • • SOUNDBITE: • • I don't know. I can say what I feel and it's the best day of my life. • SUPER CAPTION: Alessandra Mussolini, Italian parliamentary deputy and granddaughter of Benito Mussolini. • • Then the mother had to forge her way through the photographers, a taste of the attention she can expect to receive, if only because of her name. • • Inside the church the child was baptised in a traditional Roman Catholic rite. • • The baby was dressed in an embroidered bonnet and white dress made in 1927 by the dictator's wife Rachele for the baptism of Alessandra's father. • • Embroidered on the dress is an M and the date 1927 in Roman numerals, as the years were indicated during the Fascist era. • • Among the relatives missing from the ceremony was the baby's great aunt Sophia Loren, who now lives in Los Angeles. • • The actress is the sister of Alessandra's mother. • • Any hopes the child might be allowed to forget its heritage were dashed when her mother declared that she plans to hang a poster of Benito Mussolini in the child's room. • • After the baptism the family visited the crypt where the dictator is buried. • • Mussolini may be gone, but his name at least, lives on. • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
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