The Failed Assassin, The Dictator, and The Magus

A Strange Resonance

April 7, 1926, Rome, Italy. Benito Mussolini is delivering a speech on the wonders of modern medicine from the Capitoline Hill.

"Oh, illustrious masters of the surgical art! It is through you that medical science has achieved its greatest and most glorious conquests throughout the centuries! . . . Italia, Italia bella was the cradle of your art. With the…