1. Giovanni Amendola was an Italian journalist, professor, and politician.
11 Facts About Giovanni Amendola
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Giovanni Amendola is noted as an opponent of Italian fascism.
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Giovanni Amendola moved to Rome, where he obtained the middle school diploma.
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Between 1912 and 1914 Giovanni Amendola was the editor of the Bologna-based daily Il Resto del Carlino.
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Giovanni Amendola worked for Corriere della Sera from 1914 to 1920.
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In 1924 Giovanni Amendola refused to adhere to the "Listone Mussolini", and attempted to become Prime Minister, at the head of a liberal coalition which ran in the elections.
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Giovanni Amendola was defeated, but continued the democratic battle by writing columns for the Il Mondo, a new daily newspaper which he founded together with other intellectuals in 1922.
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Giovanni Amendola formulated the notion of totalitarianism as total political power which is exercised by the state in 1923, describing Italian Fascism as a system which was fundamentally different from conventional dictatorships.
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Giovanni Amendola died on 7 April 1926 at Cannes, France, in agony from violence inflicted when he was beaten by 15 Blackshirts with clubs.
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Giovanni Amendola married Eva Kuhn in 1906, and they remained together until Giovanni Amendola's death in 1926.
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Together, they had four children: Giorgio Giovanni Amendola, who became an important communist writer and politician, Adelaide, Antonio, and Pietro, who became a journalist and politician.