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Luigi Federzoni was an important Italian cultural and political figure in the first half of the twentieth century. He was founder of the Nationalist Party and a leading member of the Fascist Party. He served as Fascism’s first colonial minister from 1922 to 1924 and from 1926 to 1928. Afterwards, he mobilised institutional support for colonialism and shaped a nationalist imperial discourse that survived Fascism.
Luigi Federzoni was an important Italian cultural and political figure in the first half of the twentieth century. He was founder of the Nationalist Party and a leading member of the Fascist Party. He served as Fascism’s first colonial minister from 1922 to 1924 and from 1926 to 1928. Afterwards, he mobilised institutional support for colonialism and shaped a nationalist imperial discourse that survived Fascism.
Born in Bologna in 1878, a generation after Italian unification, he belonged to a family that had solidified its place among the provincial elite in Reggio...
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Arpaia, P. (2021). Federzoni, Luigi (1878–1967). In: Ness, I., Cope, Z. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29901-9_308
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