A revolutionary militant, a thug, an underground writer, a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. But also a switchblade-waving poet, a lover of beautiful women, a warmonger, a political agitator,…

The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as…

The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini’s secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigor but blind to the fascist dictator’s many flaws.