Simplify the following text for a Grade 11 native English-speaking person.
Original: Her father Edoardo Fallaci , was a famous antifascist political activist , in Florence .
Simplified: Her father Edoardo Fallaci , a cabinet maker in Florence , was a political activist struggling to put an end to the dictatorship of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini . It was during this period that Fallaci was first exposed to the atrocities of war .