Alberto Tarchiani (11 November 1885 – 30 November 1964) was an Italian journalist, politician, and diplomat.

Biography

Born in Rome, Tarchiani studied at

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, at the

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and at the

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, and started working as a journalist in 1903. In 1907 he moved to New York, where he edited the weekly magazine ''Il Cittadino''. In 1915 he returned to Italy to serve as a voluntary in the Italian Army in

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...

. In 1919 he was employed by ''

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'', remaining there until 1925, when because of his opposition to Fascism he was forced to emigrate in France.Aldo Garosci (1949).
Tarchiani, Alberto
. ''Enciclopedia Italiana - II Appendice''. Treccani. In Paris, Tarchiani was among the founders of ''

Giustizia e Libertà Giustizia e Libertà (; en, Justice and Freedom) was an Italian anti-fascist resistance movement, active from 1929 to 1945.James D. Wilkinson (1981). ''The Intellectual Resistance Movement in Europe''. Harvard University Press. p. 224. The mov ...

'' and collaborated to the newspaper '' La giovine Italia''. Following the 1940 German invasion of France, he moved to New York where he was secretary of the

Mazzini Society The Mazzini Society was an antifascist political association, formed on a democratic and republican basis, situating itself within the tradition of the Risorgimento, and created in the United States by Italian-American immigrants in the late 1930s. ...

in which he was actively worked with his close ally

Alberto Cianca Alberto Cianca (1884–1966) was an Italian journalist and anti-fascist politician. He edited several significant publications, including '' Il Mondo'', and served in the Parliament and Senate. Early life and education Cianca was born in Rome on ...

. With the

fall of Fascism The fall of the Fascist regime in Italy, also known in Italy as 25 Luglio ( it, Venticinque Luglio, ; "25 July"), came as a result of parallel plots led respectively by Count Dino Grandi and King Victor Emmanuel III during the spring and sum ...

, Tarchiani served as

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in the

Badoglio Pietro Badoglio, 1st Duke of Addis Abeba, 1st Marquess of Sabotino (, ; 28 September 1871 – 1 November 1956), was an Italian general during both World Wars and the first viceroy of Italian East Africa. With the fall of the Fascist regime ...

cabinet, as head the Office of National Reconstruction in the subsequent Bonomi cabinet, and as ambassador in the United States from 1945 to 1955.

Honors

Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1st Class / Knight Grand Cross – December 30, 1952

References

1885 births 1964 deaths Politicians from Rome Journalists from Rome Italian male journalists Italian magazine editors Italian politicians Ambassadors of Italy to the United States Italian diplomats 20th-century diplomats Sapienza University of Rome alumni University of Genoa alumni University of Florence alumni 20th-century Italian journalists Diplomats from Rome 20th-century Italian male writers Italian anti-fascists {{Italy-bio-stub