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Alexander of the 20th Century

An alternative Italy TL

Prologue

Extract from “Corriere della Sera” of the 2nd September 1915 in the private announcements page:

“… The Count Andrea del Leone (1) is glad to announce the birth of his nephew Alessandro, born from his daughter Anna and from father not declared; the child will receive the baptize in St. Ambrogio’s basilica the next Sunday…”

Extract from “The Mussolini dynasty, a tale of glory, blood, and betrayals”, of Charles Le Chevalier, Paris, 2011:

“It wasn’t a mystery for all the Italians, even in his days of rule, that Benito Mussolini had a large number of relations with other women, also before to the Italian intervention in the First World War; that they however didn’t known was the exact number of children he had from extramaritial relations, and probably neither the Duce knew exactly, preferring to delegate this question (because for obvious reasons he couldn’t let know to all of Italy to have bastards around the country and outside his marriage with Rachele Guidi) to his brother Arnaldo and later to the OVRA. However, aside from the “Dalser” issue (2) which we will talk later, the only natural son known by everyone even if more later and only because of the various chain of events which changed the Italian ( and of World as well) history was the most important of all; we are talking of course of Alessandro Mussolini - del Leone (3), the first male son ( and second child after the birth of Edda from the legitimate wife Rachele) of the future Duce, and destined to heights more high than his father…”

(1) Fictional character and fictional family, created to give a plausible reality to the main POD: the birth of a Mussolini’s natural son, and also first male, capable to follow the steps of his father and to surpass him…
(2) OTL history which had some importance in the early phases of the TL...
(3) The name (and the maternal surname) of the main character of his TL is of course desidered for narrative purposes...
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