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Augusto Turati (
April 16 1888 —
August 27 1955) was an
Italian journalist and
Fascist politician.
Born in
Parma, after moving to
Brescia as a young man, Turati worked on newspapers and became one of the editors at the
liberal Provincia di Brescia; he attended law classes, but never graduated. An
irredentist and advocate of Italy entering
World War I, he volunteered for the front in
1915. In
1918, he returned to Brescia as head editor of the same newspaper.
In
1920, he joined the
Fasci Italiani di Combattimento - a year later, the
National Fascist Party (PNF). Active in
trade unionism for the régime-backed
corporatist enterprises, Turati was a secretary for the Brescia
Fascio. In 1926-1930, he was secretary of the PNF, helping in the consolidation of
Benito Mussolini's rule. He doubled this task with leadership positions in sports: a
Federtennis president, a
Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera one, and leader of the
Italian Olympic Committee (jobs held in 1928-1930). In 1930-1931, he was a member of the
International Olympic Committee. Turati was also the inventor of a short-lived and supposedly uniquely Italian team sport which he called
volata.
Between 1924 and 1934, Turati served in the
Italian Chamber of Deputies; in 1931-1932, he was the editor-in-chief of
La Stampa. Accused of intrigues against other members of the PNF, Turati was demoted from official positions, and was confined on
Rhodes (an Italian possetion at the time) in 1933. Redeemed in 1937, he was released and assigned the task of carrying out a massive
agricultural experiment in
Ethiopia (part of
Italian East Africa). He had to return to Italy after the project failed the next year.
Turati moved away from the political scene, and worked as a legal consultant. He was however opposed to Italy's entry into
World War II, as well as to the
Nazi-protected
Italian Social Republic; at the end of the war, he nevertheless faced trial, but was acquitted on all charges.
He died in
Rome
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