ancient Rome In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman people, Roman civilisation from the founding of Rome, founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, collapse of the Western Roman Em ...

, ''quadrumvir'' () was an elective post assigned to four citizens having police and jurisdiction power, elected by the

Roman Senate The Roman Senate () was the highest and constituting assembly of ancient Rome and its aristocracy. With different powers throughout its existence it lasted from the first days of the city of Rome (traditionally founded in 753 BC) as the Sena ...

. The term is related to '' triumvir'' and '' duumvir'', respectively describing a post of three and two people, which gave rise to the better-known extant terms "triumvirate" and "duumvirate". At the beginning of Italian Fascism, they were a group of four leaders that led

Benito Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who, upon assuming office as Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister, became the dictator of Fascist Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 un ...

's March on Rome. They were all involved in the Fascist party under Mussolini and had been involved in politics and/or war in the period leading up to the Fascist dictatorship. They were: * Michele Bianchi, a revolutionary syndicalist leader * Emilio De Bono, a leading Italian

general A general officer is an Officer (armed forces), officer of high rank in the army, armies, and in some nations' air force, air and space forces, marines or naval infantry. In some usages, the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colone ...

who had fought in

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* Cesare Maria De Vecchi, a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, as well as a colonial administrator * Italo Balbo, a Blackshirt leader and leader of the Ferrara

Fascist Fascism ( ) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement. It is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural soci ...

organisation

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{{Fascism Political history of Italy 1922 in Italy Italian fascism 1922 in politics +

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