1. Gaetano Polverelli was an Italian journalist and politician who served as the minister of popular culture in the cabinet of Benito Mussolini being the last Fascist to hold the post.
14 Facts About Gaetano Polverelli
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Gaetano Polverelli settled in Milan where he started his journalistic career and began to write for Il Popolo d'Italia from 1914.
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Gaetano Polverelli took part in the march on Rome in October 1922.
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Gaetano Polverelli was elected to the Italian Parliament for the National Fascist Party in 1924.
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Gaetano Polverelli joined the supreme supervisory committee of the Italian Radio Auditions Authority in December 1927.
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Gaetano Polverelli was re-elected as a deputy in March 1929.
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Gaetano Polverelli was in office until August 1933 and was succeeded by Galeazzo Ciano as head of the press office.
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On 12 January 1941 Gaetano Polverelli was named as the undersecretary at the ministry of popular culture and continued to head the press office.
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Gaetano Polverelli held the post until 6 February 1943 when he was appointed minister of popular culture to the cabinet led by Benito Mussolini replacing Alessandro Pavolini in the post.
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Gaetano Polverelli was in the office until the end of the Fascist rule on 25 July 1943.
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Gaetano Polverelli first married Aminta Fracchioni in Piacenza on 6 October 1910 and had a son from this marriage.
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Gaetano Polverelli divorced his first wife and married Luisa Mazzetti in 1937 with whom he had two sons.
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Gaetano Polverelli remained away from public life until his death in Anzio on 17 September 1960.
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Gaetano Polverelli was the recipient of the grand cordon of the Order of St Gregory the Great ; grand officer of the Order of the Nile and grand cordon of the Order of the Crown of Italy.