ITALY: GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER OF DICTATOR BENITO MUSSOLINI IS BAPTISED

(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 delig