Alessandro Pavolini’s Dagger
Sleek silver plated dagger with its crossguard and blade forming a fasces, a widely used symbol in Fascism from which the ideology derives its name. Gifted to Alessandro Pavolini, secretary of the Republican Fascist Party who was noted for his uncompromising fanaticism that exceeded Mussolini’s. He is seen by historians as being one of the primary instigators of the Italian Civil War and one of the founders of the hardline Italian Social Republic.