Rino Parenti
Born13 July 1895
Milan, Kingdom of Italy
Died19 October 1953(1953-10-19) (aged 58)
Rome, Italy
NationalityItalian

Rino Parenti (13 July 1895 – 19 October 1953) was an Italian fascist leader.[1]

Biography

Parenti was born in Milan on 13 July 1895.[1][2] He was a non-commissioned officer during World War I.[1] He became fascist in 1919 and participated in local squad militant.[1] He was cofounder of the first Fascio di combattimento movement which laid the basis of the Italian Fascist Party.[3] He served at local party and was the federal secretary of the Italian Fascist Party for Milan (federale of Milan) from 26 June 1933 to 1 January 1940.[4][5] During this period, he succeeded in normalizing Milanese fascism and adapting it to the conditions of the national fascism.[4]

Parenti was the president of the Italian National Olympic Committee from 1939 to 1940.[6] He was the first president elected according to the new rules.[7] In 1939 he became a member of the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations, and from 1 September 1942 to 1 August 1943 he served as prefect of Como. After the armistice of Cassibile he joined the Italian Social Republic, and on 1 October 1943 he was appointed prefect of Sondrio, a post he held until the end of the war, when he was arrested and imprisoned.[2] Parenti died in Rome on 19 October 1953.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Harold D. Lasswell; Renzo Sereno (October 1937). "Governmental and Party Leaders in Fascist Italy". The American Political Science Review. 31 (5): 914–929. doi:10.2307/1947917. JSTOR 1947917. S2CID 146969040.
  2. ^ a b c "Rino (Efre) Parenti/Deputati". Camera dei deputati. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  3. ^ Luca La Rovere (2008). "The 'Examination of Conscience' of the Nation: The Lost Debate About the 'Collective Guilt' in Italy, 1943–5". Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions. 9 (2–3): 195. doi:10.1080/14690760802094826. S2CID 219623339.
  4. ^ a b Lorenzo Benadusi (2012). The Enemy of the New Man: Homosexuality in Fascist Italy. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-299-28390-2.
  5. ^ Guido Bonsaver (2007). Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy. University of Toronto Press. p. 162. ISBN 978-0-8020-9496-4.
  6. ^ "The Olympic Dictionary" (PDF). Gazzetta. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
  7. ^ Pierre Arnaud; James Riordan, eds. (1996). Sport and International Politics. London: E & FN Spon. ISBN 978-1-1388-8051-1.
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