Editing Clara Petacci (section)

==Relationship with Mussolini==
Petacci had a long-standing relationship with Mussolini while he was married to [[Rachele Mussolini]]. Petacci was 28 years younger than Mussolini.<ref>{{in lang|es}} Giuseppina Persichetti, ''La enamorada de Mussolini'', Madrid, Ediciones Caballero Audaz, 1947.</ref> They met for the first time in April 1932 when Mussolini, driving with an aide to Ostia, overtook a car occupied by the twenty-year-old Petacci and family members. She called out, "Duce! Duce!" and when he stopped, told him that she had been writing to him since her early teens.<ref>{{cite book|first=Max|last=Gallo|page=216|title=Mussolini's Italy|date=1974 |publisher=Abelard-Schuman |isbn=0-200-72140-2}}</ref> 

In 1934, Petacci married Italian Air Force officer Riccardo Federici, but she parted ways with her husband when he was sent to [[Tokyo]] as Air Attaché in 1936.<ref>{{cite book|last=Boswort|first=R.J.B.|title=Mussolini|year=2010|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]]}}</ref> Petacci then became the mistress of the fifty-three-year-old Mussolini, visiting his headquarters in the {{lang|it|[[Palazzo Venezia]]|italic=no}}, where a small apartment was reserved for her. Her infatuation with Mussolini appears to have been genuine and permanent. The affair became widely known and members of the Petacci family, notably her brother, [[Marcello Petacci|Marcello]], were able to benefit financially and professionally by influence-selling.<ref>{{cite book|first=Max|last=Gallo|pages=270–271|title=Mussolini's Italy|date=1974 |publisher=Abelard-Schuman |isbn=0-200-72140-2}}</ref>  

Part of Petacci and Mussolini's correspondence has not been released on the grounds of privacy.<ref>{{in lang|it}} Giampiero Buonomo, [https://www.academia.edu/11435982/Ricerca_storiografica_e_diritto_alla_riservatezza {{lang|it|Quel carteggio tra Mussolini e la Petacci. Storici sacrificati sull’altare della privacy}}, in Diritto e giustizia, 16 luglio 2005].</ref>