This song is about Pietro Badoglio, a fascist general that later turned dictator after 1943 and switched sides while being against partisans. 0:12 Vittorio is Vittorio Emanuele III king of Italy 0: 19 This is not Italian, it's piedmontese (a northern italian language) 1:40 Alpini are special forces of the italian army 2:22 General Enrico Adami Rossi, commander of the territorial defense of Turin, during the 45 days of the Badoglio government had the Turin workers shot several times, later he surrendered to the Germans to then pass to the service of the RSI (Nazi puppet state in northern italy) 2:26 Here the term Borghese does not mean bourgeois but "abitante del borgo" meaning inhabitant of the borough 2:41 Clara Petacci was Mussolini's lover