Amendola, Giovanni

Amendola, Giovanni

▪ Italian journalist and politician
born April 15, 1882, Rome, Italy
died April 7, 1926, Cannes, France

      journalist, politician, and, in the early 1920s, foremost opponent of the Italian Fascists.

      As a young journalist, Amendola expressed his philosophical and ideological views in articles appearing first in La Voce (“The Voice”) and then in the newspapers Resto di Carlino and Corriere della sera. He urged Italy's entry into World War I in 1915 and fought as a volunteer, reaching the rank of captain and winning a medal of valour.

      After the war, Amendola devoted himself entirely to politics as a Democratic Liberal in favour of a policy of rapprochement with the Slavs. First elected to parliament in 1919, he was in 1922 minister for the colonies in Luigi Facta's cabinet. With Benito Mussolini's advent to power, Amendola became a leader of the opposition and attacked the new regime through the columns of his newspaper Il Mondo. After the murder of the socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti, Amendola was one of the deputies who withdrew from the chamber in protest. In spite of threats against his life during the election campaign of 1924, he declared the Fascist electoral law to be unconstitutional. He died as a result of injuries received when a gang of Fascists attacked him in the Italian spa of Montecatini.

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