The Business Motive

In 1966 when Renzo De Felice turned to the Matteotti murder in his multi-volume biography of Mussolini, the materials he had available convinced him to focus on the political motive for the crime—Matteotti’s May 30 speech, the irritation Mussolini expressed to his followers in its aftermath, the “fascist lesson” that mistakenly ended in the socialist’s death.