Renzo De Felice

Renzo De Felice was an Italian historian, who specialized in the Fascist era, writing, among other works, a 6000-page biography of Mussolini. He argued that Mussolini was a revolutionary modernizer in domestic issues but a pragmatist in foreign policy who continued the Realpolitik policies of Italy from 1861 to 1922. Historian of Italy Philip Morgan has called De Felice's biography of Mussolini "a very controversial, influential and at the same time problematic re-reading of Mussolini and Fascism" and rejected the contention that his work rose above politics to "scientific objectivity", as claimed by the author and his defenders.

8 April 1929

Born on the same birth day (8 April): Adrian Boult • Albert Bustamante • Allu Arjun • August Wilhelm von Hofmann • Bernt Haas • Betty Ford • David Rittenhouse • Gennady Golovkin • Katee Sackhoff • Kenny Benjamin • Khaled Badra • Maria Maksakova Sr. • Mark Spencer (computer engineer) • Pablo Portillo • Shecky Greene • Tine Asmundsen • Tom DeLay

Born in the same month (April 1929): Bob Denard • Christos Sartzetakis • Elspet Gray • George Steiner • Inez Andrews • James Last • Jonathan Haze • Mahmoud Mollaghasemi • Michael Atiyah • Peter Sculthorpe