Alessandro Pavolini Pavolini was captured after a desperate escape attempt which saw him swimming across Lake Como and then trapped in a Mexican standoff over a half submerged rock. When Pavolini ran out of bullets, he was finally apprehended and executed by the partisans in Dongo. Before burial, his body was hung upside down in public, along with Mussolini, Mussolini's mistress Clara Petacci, the former Party Secretary Achille Starace, Nicola Bombacci and others in Piazzale Loreto, Milan. Alessandro Pavolini Alessandro Pavolini (September 27, 1903 – April 28, 1945) was an Italian politician, journalist, and essayist, notable for his involvement in the Fascist
Dictator novel this technique is not necessarily a prerequisite of the dictator novel, as there are many that do not utilize magical realism. A predominant theme of the dictator novel is power, which according literary critic Michael Valdez Moses, in his 2002 review of "Feast of the Goat", is linked to the theme of dictatorship: "The enduring power of the Latin American dictator novel had everything to do with the enduring power of Latin American dictators". As novels such as "El Señor Presidente" became more well-known, they were read as ambitious political statements, denouncing the authority of dictators in Latin America. As