Editing Clara Petacci (section)

==Early life==
Daughter of Giuseppina Persichetti (1888–1962) and the physician Francesco Saverio Petacci (1883–1970), Clara Petacci was born into a privileged and religious family in Rome in 1912.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barber |first=Tony |date=17 February 2017 |title=Claretta by RJB Bosworth — Mussolini's last lover |url=https://www.ft.com/content/7b012a32-f2d3-11e6-95ee-f14e55513608 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218133059/https://www.ft.com/content/7b012a32-f2d3-11e6-95ee-f14e55513608 |archive-date=2017-02-18 |access-date=2021-04-02 |website=www.ft.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Downing |first=Ben |date=2017-03-24 |title=In Bed With Il Duce |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-bed-with-il-duce-1490382122 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2021-04-02 |issn=0099-9660}}</ref> Her father, a physician of the [[Apostolic Palace |Holy Apostolic Palaces]],<ref>De Felice (1981) p. 278</ref> became a supporter of [[fascism]]. A child when Mussolini rose to power in the 1920s, Clara Petacci idolised him from an early age. After [[Violet Gibson]] attempted to assassinate the dictator in April 1926, the 14-year-old Petacci wrote to him commenting "O, Duce, why was I not with you?&nbsp;... Could I not have strangled that murderous woman?"<ref>
{{Cite web |last=Thomson|first=Ian|date=25 February 2017|title=The Ben and Clara affair|url= https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-ben-and-clara-affair|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-02 |website= www.spectator.co.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200825021748/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-ben-and-clara-affair |archive-date=2020-08-25 }}
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