The Woman Who Shot Mussolini

At 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 7, 1926, a woman stepped out of the crowd on Rome's Campidoglio Square and shot Mussolini at point-blank range. He escaped virtually unscathed. Violet Gibson, who expected to be thanked for her action, was arrested, labeled a "crazy Irish spinster" and a "half-mad mystic"---and promptly forgotten. Now, in an elegant work of reconstruction, Frances Stonor Saunders retrieves this remarkable figure from the lost historical record. In a grand tragic narrative, full of suspense and mystery, conspiracy and back-room diplomacy, she vividly resurrects the life and times of a woman who sought to forestall catastrophe, whatever the cost.

Frances Stonor Saunders is the author of The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, which was short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award, received the Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Memorial Prize, and was translated into ten languages. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, as well as The Guardian and The Independent. She lives in London.

Prologue: Now Wednesday, 7 April 1926	p. 1
Revelation
Then	p. 19
Open, O Ye Heavenly Gates	p. 23
The Problem of Being	p. 32
The New Mystics	p. 40
La Femme Qui Cherche	p. 45
L'Homme Qui Cherche	p. 51
Hoc Est Corpus Meum	p. 54
Holy War	p. 65
Il Miglior Fabbro	p. 73
Things Snap	p. 79
Acts
Theater of Madness	p. 101
Martyrs	p. 111
Gethsemane	p. 121
What God Wants	p. 126
Providential Escape	p. 132
Questions	p. 144
Secrets	p. 156
The New Augustus	p. 166
Hidden Hands	p. 175
Lives of the Saints	p. 180
Mea Culpa	p. 191
Examination	p. 198
Stigmata	p. 208
Heretics	p. 213
Lockdown	p. 223
Special Justice	p. 231
Lucid Insanity	p. 238
Exodus	p. 246
Lamentations
Mansion of Despair	p. 255
The Absence of God	p. 264
Buried Alive	p. 271
Cometh the Hour	p. 282
By the Heels at Milano	p. 297
Casting Off	p. 306
Death in Exile	p. 314
Epilogue	p. 317
Notes	p. 321
Acknowledgments	p. 363
Picture Credits	p. 365
Index	p. 367
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