Roberto Forges Davanzati (23 February 1880,

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1 June 1936,

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) was an Italian journalist, academic and politician. Initially a

syndicalist Syndicalism is a revolutionary current within the left-wing of the labor movement that seeks to unionize workers according to industry and advance their demands through strikes with the eventual goal of gaining control over the means of pr ...

, he later became a

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and

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Life and career

After obtaining a degree in law Forges Davanzati, a member of the

Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy, whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the longest-living parties of the country. Founded in Genoa in 1892, ...

(PSI), became a journalist with the party papers ''

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'' and ''Avanguardia Socialista''. Philip Rees, '' Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890'', 1990, p. 131 Associated with the syndicalist tendency of the party his interest in nationalism grew and in 1906 he left the PSI to take up a position at the paper ''Pagine Libre'', which had been founded by Angelo Oliviero Olivetti and which soon became associated with

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. Forges Davanzati soon converted to full nationalism and took a position with ''

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'', at the time a nationalist symathising paper He became one of the founders of the more hard-line nationalist newspaper '' L'Idea Nazionale'' in 1911. He confirmed his full conversion by joining the

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(INA) before leaving to serve in the

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. Associated with the pro-fascist tendency within the INA immediately after the war, he endorsed the merger of the two groups and was the secretary of the provisional directorate of the

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immediately after the fusion of the two groups. He also served as a member of the Grand Council of Fascism and from 1925 was editor of ''La Tribuna-Idea Nazionale'', a merger of the two groups' newspapers. He was appointed to the

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in 1934. Benefitting from his closeness to the government, Forges Davanzati also taught political science as the Sapienza University of Rome and broadcast a daily radio show ''Chronicles of the Regime''.

References

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