Pietro Gorgolini
Pietro Gorgolini (22 May 1891 – 4 October 1973) was an Italian writer and journalist.
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Biography
Pietro Gorgolini was born in Castrovillari, a comune in the province of Cosenza, Calabria, the son of Michele Gorgolini and Maria Lamuraglia.
With the outbreak of the war, he enlisted as a volunteer in the infantry, fighting with the rank of second lieutenant and then lieutenant: at the end of the conflict he was awarded the chevrons of captain and the rank of invalid, as well as decorations and honors. Transferring to the University of Camerino as adjutant of the Officers' Center assembled by the government at that university, he began a lively political life. Gorgolini received his law degreee in 1919.
His 1922 defense of Luigi Cadorna attracted significant attention from Gabriele D'Annunzio and Mussolini (to whom it was dedicated), but was also noticed in the circles of Piedmontese nationalist and liberal intellectuals, from Vittorio Cian to Luigi Einaudi. In 1925, Gorgolini returned to Piedmont, settling in Turin, where he took a second "special" degree in geography under Cosimo Bertacchi.
Pietro Gorgolini died in Ostia, Rome.
Works
- Fiamme di vita (1911; poetry)
- Novelle del sangue e dell'amore (1912)
- Eroina siciliana (1914)
- Io difendo Cadorna! (1919)
- Luigi Cadorna: profilo (1922)
- Il Facismo nella vita italiana (1922)
- La rivoluzione fascista (1923)
- Michele Bianchi: un profilo (1923)
- Raffaele e Luigi Cadorna (1937)
- La nuova Spagna di Franco (1940)
- Saggi politici e letterari (1940)
References
- D'Orsi, Angelo (2002). "Gorgolini, Pietro," Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Vol. LVIII.
