Giorgio Pini (1 February 1899 – 30 March 1987) was an Italian politician and journalist.

Biography

Pini was born in 1899 in

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, studied law at the

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and served in

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before joining the Bologna fascio in 1920. Philip Rees, '' Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890'', 1990, p. 296 Following the establishment of the

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state, he became an important figure in the journalists syndicate along with the likes of Lando Ferretti and Telesio Interlandi. As a

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he made his name as an editor for '' il Resto del Carlino'' (1928–1930) and ''

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'' (1936) before graduating to the editorship of ''

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'' in December 1936. He retained this post until 1943, although in the

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Pini, who was a noted moderate, returned to the local ''Resto''.Rees, ''Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right'', p. 297 He did however serve as an undersecretary in the Ministry of the Interior in 1944. Pini was most noted in

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for his biography of

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, a hagiography from which '' Il Duce'' profited financially. It was translated by Luigi Villari into English as ''The Official Life on Benito Mussolini'' in 1939. After the

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he released an updated version of this book with Duilio Susmel whilst in 1950 he published ''Itinerario Tragica 1943/44'' which was also pro-fascist in nature. His continuing justifications for fascism led him to

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politics in the post-war era and he was a founding member of the

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(MSI).P. Davies & D. Lynch, ''Routledge Companion to Fascism and the Far Right'', 2002, p. 207 Within the MSI he was part of the 'left-wing' tendency that sought to add

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economics to their rhetoric and when his position was not adopted he left in January 1952 to help launch the Raggruppamento Sociale Repubblicano with Pini continued his career on the socialist fringes of the far right and frequently attacked the MSI in later years for forging links to regimes in Greece">ncetto Pettinato. Pini continued his career on the socialist fringes of the far right and frequently attacked the MSI in later years for forging links to regimes in Greece, South Africa and Portugal that he dismissed as reactionary. Pini died aged 88 in 1987 in

References

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