Giovanni Comini

Giovanni Comini (27 October 1906 – 2002) was an Italian politician, who served as member of the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations, and federal secretary of Brescia for the National Fascist Party.

Life and career An ardent supporter of Fascism, Giovanni Comini was trained at the Fascist University Groups and rapidly advanced in the youth organizations of the National Fascist Party, first becoming vice-mayor of Brescia in 1929 and later the federal secretary of the Province of Brescia on 12 April 1935, at the young age of 28.

During his term as federal secretary, Comini was assigned by Secretary Achille Starace to stay in close contact with and closely monitor the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, who was a source of concern for Benito Mussolini. Comini's diaries contain impressions and detailed accounts of the surveillance period and his interactions with D'Annunzio, as well as the involvement of the OVRA in the matter: "Informers and spies of every kind. More or less secret agents. Professional and amateur investigators, shrewd and not, but all always ready to sell gossip and nonsense to the highest bidder. If they had told me a month ago, I wouldn't have believed it".

He was also national deputy of the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations from March 1939 to March 1940.

Comini died in Cellatica in 2002.