![The newspaper L'Adula, founded by Teresa Bontempi, was banned by the Federal Council in 1935.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/l-adula-300x225.jpg)
Between Montessori and fascism
Teresa Bontempi helped shape the history of Ticino at the beginning of the 20th century, first as a teacher, and later as an advocate of fascism. She was a woman with two faces.
![Geneva police photograph of 21-year-old Benito Mussolini, 1904.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/polizeifoto-genf-300x241.jpg)
Aggressive rhetoric against the Swiss Confederation
![Maria Montessori, photographed in 1913.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/montessori-297x300.jpg)
![Portrait of Teresa Bontempi.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/bontempi-300x200.jpg)