Pietro Badoglio

Pietro Badoglio, 1st Duke of Addis Abeba, 1st Marquess of Sabotino  Italian: ; 28 September 1871 – 1 November 1956, was an Italian general during both World Wars and the first viceroy of Italian East Africa. With the fall of the Fascist regime in Italy, he became Prime Minister of Italy. Contents   1Early life and career 2World War I

Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini  Italian: ; 29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945 was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the Fascist coup d’état in 1922 until his deposition in 1943, and Duce (“Leader”) of Italian Fascism from the establishment of the Italian Fasces of Combat in 1919 until his execution in 1945 during the Italian Civil War. As dictator of

Luigi Facta

Luigi Facta 16 November 1861 – 5 November 1930 was an Italian politician, journalist and the last Prime Minister of Italy before the March on Rome and the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini. Facta was born in Pinerolo, Piedmont, Italy. He studied law and later became a journalist. He entered politics in 1892 when he was elected to the chamber of deputies for

Ivanoe Bonomi

Ivanoe Bonomi [iˈvaːnoe boˈnɔːmi]  18 October 1873 – 20 April 1951 was an Italian statesman before and after World War II and ruled Italy as the 25th Prime Minister of Italy. Bonomi was born in Mantua, Italy. He was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1909, representing Mantua as a member of the Italian Socialist Party. He was among those expelled from the

Francesco Saverio Nitti

Francesco Saverio Vincenzo de Paolo Nitti  19 July 1868 – 20 February 1953 was an Italian economist and political figure. A Radical, he served as Prime Minister of Italy between 1919 and 1920. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia (“Theories of Overpopulation”), Nitti (Population and the Social System, 1894) was a staunch critic of English economist Thomas Robert Malthus and his Principle

Vittorio Emanuele Orlando

Vittorio Emanuele Orlando  19 May 1860 – 1 December 1952 was an Italian statesman, known for representing Italy in the 1919 Paris Peace Conference with his foreign minister Sidney Sonnino. He was also known as “Premier of Victory” for defeating the Central Powers along with the Entente in World War I. He was also member and president of the Constitutional Assembly that changed the Italian

Paolo Boselli

Paolo Boselli  8 June 1838 – 10 March 1932 was an Italian politician who served as the 34th Prime Minister of Italy during World War I. Biography[edit] Boselli was born in Savona, Liguria. Boselli was the first professor of science at the University of Rome prior to entering politics. He served for 51 years as a liberal rightist parliamentary

Antonio Salandra

Antonio Salandra  13 August 1853 – 9 December 1931 was a conservative Italian politician who served as the 21st Prime Minister of Italy between 1914 and 1916. He ensured the entry of Italy in World War I on the side of the Triple Entente (the United Kingdom, France, and the Russian Empire) to fulfil Italy’s

Luigi Luzzatti

Luigi Luzzatti  11 March 1841 – 29 March 1927 was an Italian financier, political economist, social philosopher, and jurist. He served as the 20th Prime Minister of Italy between 1910 and 1911. He was the first Venetian and second Jewish Prime Minister of Italy after Alessandro Fortis, although his predecessor Sidney Sonnino was of partial Jewish ancestry. Luzzatti came from a wealthy and cultured

Alessandro Fortis

Alessandro Fortis (16 September 1842 – 4 December 1909) was an Italian politician who served as the 18th Prime Minister of Italy from 1905 to 1906. He was Italy’s first Jewish Prime Minister. Contents   1Early career 2Prime Minister 3Death and family 4References 5External links Early career Fortis was born in Forlì, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, and became a lawyer. A republican follower