11 Facts About Dino Alfieri

Odoardo Dino Alfieri was an Italian fascist politician and diplomat.

Dino Alfieri served as Benito Mussolini's press and propaganda minister and ambassador to Berlin.

Dino Alfieri completed his law degree at the University of Genoa in 1915 and shortly thereafter volunteer for military service.

Dino Alfieri was quickly promoted to lieutenant earning a bronze medal in 1916 and silver medal for military valor in 1917.

Under Mussolini's government, Dino Alfieri was assigned several tasks: between 1929 and 1934, he was co-director of the Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution, deputy secretary of the Corporazioni, and deputy secretary for Press and Propaganda from 1935, assuming the duties of Minister Galeazzo Ciano during the latter's mission in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

When Ciano moved on to become Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dino Alfieri found himself appointed Minister of People's Culture in 1937, and declared himself in favour of Antisemitical racial segregation laws passed in 1938.

Dino Alfieri was Italy's envoy to the Holy See starting 7 November 1939, and five months later to Nazi Germany, where he often met Adolf Hitler.

In July 1943, Dino Alfieri was called to Rome by members of the Grand Council in order to participate in a meeting.

In 1947, Dino Alfieri returned to Italy and a year later published his memoirs as Due dittatori di fronte.

Dino Alfieri died in a Milan hospital on 2 January 1966.

At the time of his death, Dino Alfieri was president of Mitam, a textile and clothing manufacturers association.