Di Canio reportedly called fascist dictator Mussolini "a very principled ethical individual" who was "deeply misunderstood".
Its late founder, a Mussolini fan, was accused but never charged as a war criminal.
The Romanoffs, Hitler, Mussolini and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke all reputedly stayed here.
One said it was part of the slide towards legitimising fascism and the rehabilitation of Mussolini.
It is a 25-minute collection of video and audio clips from 100 of Mussolini's speeches.
Hitler and Mussolini governed atop turbulent fascist parties in uneasy collaboration with existing elites.
And handsome too: he was said to have had an affair with a daughter of Mussolini.
Hitler would be proud, Mussolini would be proud of what we did here, Moscow would be proud.
Later he withdrew a controversial bill that would have given honours and pensions to Mussolini's diehard militia.
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When the paper's editor is murdered by Mussolini's secret police, our hero reluctantly takes up the editorial cudgel.
Ms Fallaci has many things in her life to be proud of, including her family's disavowal of Mussolini.
Mussolini had been wrong to pass anti-Jewish laws but had otherwise been a good leader, said Mr Berlusconi.
Back in Mussolini's day, when Italy twice won the World Cup, success in football and politics went together.
Other highlights include two large photo albums that Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini exchanged prior to War World II.
After all, the system was put in place precisely to prevent the return of a dictator like Benito Mussolini.
Mussolini at least conquered Ethiopia, but for him and his people the second world war was yet another disaster.
The prolonged newsreel footage of the actual Mussolini is so appalling that the mystery of his success remains unresolved.
Mussolini had provided Zog with money to develop the country and ease poverty.
Historian David Kertzer notes that Cardinal Angelo Ratti became pope just a few months before Mussolini took power in Italy.
"When Mussolini and Hitler visited each other before the war, they would each have their photographers document their trips, " Maddalena said.
Mussolini's only virtue, he said, was that he encouraged Italian football, which for Leo Valiani rivalled history as a worthwhile pursuit.
With Mussolini dead and the Germans defeated, Mr Valiani's committee was in a strong position to help shape Italy's real government.
But Zog believed, probably correctly, that his life was threatened, not just by Mussolini, but by enemies from his tribal days.
It is ironic, not to say sad, that Mussolini would almost certainly have been proud of this extremist and potentially dangerous tract.
In fact, protesters began calling Morsy "Morsilini, " a reference to the late Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini who was Adolf Hitler's ally.
Corporatism, an old European menace (think Mussolini), is a much bigger threat.
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At the time he was praised by members of Mussolini's family, but the football authorities fined him and suspended him for one match.
He is an unapologetic monarchist (Italy hasn't had a king since before Mussolini) and keeps a photo of Queen Elizabeth in his office.
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