Domenico Pellegrini Giampietro

Who was Domenico Pellegrini Giampietro?

Domenico Pellegrini Giampietro was an Italian academic, economist, lawyer, politician, and journalist.

As a young man living in Caserta, Pellegrini Giampietro founded a nationalist legion named Sempre pronti. He was a decorated infantry lieutenant in World War I, and joined the Fascist movement in 1922, as a member of the Benito Mussolini's Partito Nazionale Fascista, and took part in the March on Rome. In the period, Pellegrini Giampietro became associated with certain clubs of the Freemasonry.

A major figure of Campanian-elected fascists, he received a diploma in Law in 1926, and became lawyer for the next eight years. He was one who took Fascism into academia, lecturing on Comparative public law and doctrinary history of Fascism at Naples University. He also worked in several credit unions.

Pellegrini Giampietro was a volunteer infantry captain on Francisco Franco's side in the Spanish Civil War, and was twice decorated. Upun his return, he received numerous political appointments - notably, he was a counsellor for the Corporazioni and the Fasci, and deputy-secretary in the Ministry of Finance in 1943.