12 Facts About Giuseppe Bottai

Giuseppe Bottai was an Italian journalist and member of the National Fascist Party of Benito Mussolini.

Giuseppe Bottai graduated at Liceo Torquato Tasso and attended the Sapienza University of Rome until the 1915, when Italy declared war to the Central Powers.

In 1919, Giuseppe Bottai met Benito Mussolini during a Futurist meeting, and contributed to establish the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento.

In 1921, Giuseppe Bottai ended his studies at law faculty and became a freemason, member of the Gran Loggia d'Italia.

Giuseppe Bottai worked to the Ministry of Corporations, introducing the Labour Charter and planning a Corporative Academic Pole in Pisa, from 1926 to 1932, when he was excluded by Mussolini from the Ministry.

In 1933, Giuseppe Bottai established and chaired the National Institute of the Social Security.

Giuseppe Bottai was appointed governor of Rome but resigned to fight in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War with the rank of major.

Giuseppe Bottai co-worked with art critics Giulio Carlo Argan and Cesare Brandi to improve the Italian cultural life.

Giuseppe Bottai thought that the "Fascist Revolution" was incomplete and that what was needed was a return to the original and more "pure" fascism.

Giuseppe Bottai voted for Mussolini's arrest, which had been proposed by Dino Grandi, on 25 July 1943 after Italy's defeat had become evident.

In 1944, Giuseppe Bottai enlisted in the French Foreign Legion with the pseudonym Andrea Battaglia.

Giuseppe Bottai fought in Provence during Operation Dragoon and then in the Western Allied invasion of Germany.