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Mussolini was born in the central Italian town of Predappio, in the then-province of Forlì (from 1992 called province of Forlì-Cesena). His father, Alessandro, was a blacksmith and his mother, Rosa Maltoni, was a school teacher. Alessandro Mussolini was an enthusiast socialist of the anarchic wing and an atheist. He bestowed the first name "Benito" upon his son after Mexican president [[Benito Juarez]] and the middle name "Andrea" after the founder of the short-lived Italian "Revolutionary Socialist Party of Romagna", Andrea Conti. Benito's mother, however, was a religious Catholic woman and had the child baptized.

Mussolini was born in the central Italian town of Predappio, in the then-province of Forlì (from 1992 called province of Forlì-Cesena). His father, Alessandro, was a blacksmith and his mother, Rosa Maltoni, was a school teacher. Alessandro Mussolini was an enthusiast socialist of the anarchic wing and an atheist. He bestowed the first name "Benito" upon his son after Mexican president [[Benito Juarez]] and the middle name "Andrea" after the founder of the short-lived Italian "Revolutionary Socialist Party of Romagna", Andrea Conti. Benito's mother, however, was a religious Catholic woman and had the child baptized.

Benito Mussolini had a troubled education: at age 10 he was expelled from a Salesian-run religious middle school in Faenza when he stabbed an older classmate with a knife. After that, he enrolled in a public and secular Teachers' School for Boys in Forlimpopoli (even there, he was poorly behaved and involved in fistfights and even at least one additional stabbing). He also had a reputation of being a bully and a fighter even as a youth, and had done acts such as pinching people in church to make them cry as well as leading a gang of boys on raids of local farmsteads. He also became adept at dueling with swords, and had at least 100 wounds sustained in battle when entering a sword duel with a rival newspaper editor on May 1922. His more violent penchant will stay with him into adulthood, admitting he had stabbed one of his girlfriends once, and also his later violence as the dictator of Italy.<ref name="Greenspan"/> He graduated in 1901 with an elementary teacher's license, but was jobless. He never attended any kind of university, as his school didn't grant the necessary diploma to do so.

Benito Mussolini had a troubled education: at age 10 he was expelled from a Salesian-run religious middle school in Faenza when he stabbed an older classmate with a knife. After that, he enrolled in a public and secular Teachers' School for Boys in Forlimpopoli (even there, he was poorly behaved and involved in fistfights and even at least one additional stabbing). He also had a reputation of being a bully and a fighter even as a youth, and had done acts such as pinching people in church to make them cry as well as leading a gang of boys on raids of local farmsteads. He also became adept at dueling with swords, and had at least 100 wounds sustained in battle when entering a sword duel with a rival newspaper editor in May 1922. His more violent penchant will stay with him into adulthood, admitting he had stabbed one of his girlfriends once, and also his later violence as the dictator of Italy.<ref name="Greenspan"/> He graduated in 1901 with an elementary teacher's license, but was jobless. He never attended any kind of university, as his school didn't grant the necessary diploma to do so.

==Socialist activities==

==Socialist activities==