Alessandro Mussolini

Alessandro Mussolini
Born	11 November 1854 Montemaggiore di Predappio, Papal States (now in Italy)
Died	19 November 1910(1910-11-19) (aged 56) Forlì, Kingdom of Italy
Occupation	Blacksmith
Spouse	Rosa Maltoni (m. 1882; died 1905)
Children	Benito Mussolini Arnaldo Mussolini Edvige Mussolini
Family	Mussolini family

Alessandro Mussolini (11 November 1854 – 19 November 1910) was the father of Italian Fascist founder and leader Benito Mussolini, the father of Arnaldo and Edvige Mussolini, the father-in-law of Rachele Mussolini, and the paternal grandfather of Edda Mussolini, Romano Mussolini, Vittorio Mussolini and Bruno Mussolini. He was an Italian revolutionary socialist activist with nationalist sympathies.^[1] Mussolini was a blacksmith by profession.^[2] He was married to Rosa Maltoni, a schoolteacher, who became the mother of Benito Mussolini,^[2] and exercised considerable influence over his son Benito's early political beliefs, even naming his son Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini after three leaders he admired: Benito Juárez, Amilcare Cipriani and Andrea Costa.^[1]