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Araldo di Crollalanza (1892–1986) was an Italian journalist and politician who held significant posts in Fascist Italy. He was the minister of public works between 1930 and 1935 and a long-term member of the Italian Senate.

Biography

Di Crollalanza was born in Bari on 19 May 1892.[1] He contributed to the newspapers, including Il Corriere delle Puglie, La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno and Il Popolo d'Italia. [1] He fought in World War I and in 1919 established the National Combatants Association of Bari.[1] On 23 March of that year Benito Mussolini appointed him as regional political secretary of the Fascist organization of Apulia and Lucania.[1]

Di Crollalanza joined the National Fascist Party (PNF) in an early age.[2] In 1922 he took part in the march on Rome and in 1924 he was elected deputy from the PNF.[2] In 1926 he was elected the mayor of Bari being the first Fascist to hold the post.[3] When Di Crollalanza was in office he attempted to rebuild Bari as a new centre for Fascist rule and to make the city a bridge between the Orient and the Occident on the directives of Mussolini.[3]

On 9 July 1928, di Crollalanza was appointed state secretary for public works.[3] Di Crollalanza served as the minister of public works in the period 1930–1935 in the cabinet of Benito Mussolini.[4] In addition to these posts Di Crollalanza continued to serve as the mayor of Bari being represented by his deputy Vincenzo Vella.[3] In 1935 Di Crollalanza was named the president of a Fascist youth organisation, Opera Nazionale Balilla.[2] In 1943 he joined the Italian Social Republic.[2] After the fall of Fascism Di Crollalanza was arrested, but was released from prison soon and resumed political activity with the Italian Social Movement.[2] Between 1953 and 1986 he served at the Italian Senate from the Italian Social Movement.[4] in 1982, on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday, the President of the Senate Amintore Fanfani presented him with a gold medal.[2] Di Crollalanza died in Rome on 18 January 1986.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Maria Giovanna Depalma (17 January 2020). "Trentaquattro anni senza "Araldo da Bari"". Quotidiano di Bari. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Araldo di Crollalanza nel ricordo della bella politica". Secolo d'Italia (in Italian). 11 May 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d Christine Beese (2019). "The Townscape of Bari: A Laboratory of Italian Urbanism during the Early Twentieth Century". In Carmen M. Enss; Luigi Monzo (eds.). Townscapes in Transition. Transformation and Reorganization of Italian Cities and Their Architecture in the Interwar Period. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. pp. 141, 143. doi:10.1515/9783839446607. ISBN 9783839446607.
  4. ^ a b "Crollalanza". Treccani (in Italian).
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