Giorgio Pini

Giorgio Pini (1 February 1899 – 30 March 1987) was an Italian politician and journalist.

Biography Pini was born in 1899 in Bologna, studied law at the University of Bologna and served in World War I before joining the Bologna fascio in 1920. Following the establishment of the fascist state, he became an important figure in the journalists syndicate along with the likes of Lando Ferretti and Telesio Interlandi. He did however serve as an undersecretary in the Ministry of the Interior in 1944. It was translated by Luigi Villari into English as The Official Life on Benito Mussolini in 1939. After the Second World War he released an updated version of this book with Duilio Susmel whilst in 1950 he published Itinerario Tragica 1943/44 which was also pro-fascist in nature. Within the MSI he was part of the 'left-wing' tendency that sought to add socialist economics to their rhetoric and when his position was not adopted he left in January 1952 to help launch the Raggruppamento Sociale Repubblicano with [oncetto Pettinato. Pini continued his career on the socialist fringes of the far right and frequently attacked the MSI in later years for forging links to regimes in Greece, South Africa and Portugal that he dismissed as reactionary.

Pini died aged 88 in 1987 in Bologna.