Guido Porzio Giovanola

Guido Porzio Giovanola (25 March 1886 – 21 March 1943) was an Italian admiral in the Regia Marina during World War II.

Biography

Born in Piacenza in 1885, figlio di Giuseppe, ingegnere, e Giuseppina Moriondi he entered the Naval Academy of Livorno in 1904, graduating in 1907 with the rank of ensign. He then participated in the Italo-Turkish War as a sub-lieutenant on the battleship Sicilia and on the gunboat Giuliana, earning a War Cross for Military Valor. He was then appointed naval commander of Albania until February 1943, when he fell seriously hill and was hospitalized in the military hospital of Apuania. There he died on 21 March 1943.