Gaetano Azzariti

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Gaetano Azzariti
Azzariti in 1957
Minister of Justice of the Kingdom of Italy
In office
28 July 1943 – 15 February 1944
Preceded byAlfredo De Marsico
Succeeded byEttore Casati
In office
6 April 1957 – 5 January 1961
Preceded byEnrico De Nicola
Succeeded byGiuseppe Cappi
President of the Tribunal for the Race
In office
November 1939 – June 1943
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Personal details
Born(1881-03-26)26 March 1881
Naples, Kingdom of Italy
Died5 January 1961(1961-01-05) (aged 79)
Rome, Italy
AwardsOrder of Merit of the Italian Republic
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Gaetano Azzariti (26 March 1881 – 5 January 1961) was an Italian jurist and politician, who headed the Commission on Race under the

Italian fascist regime. After the war, from 1957 to 1961, he was president of the Constitutional Court of Italy
.

Early life and career

Azzariti was born in

First World War, he was appointed secretary of the Postwar Commission.[1]

Fascist regime

Much of his work was carried out at the Legislative Office of the Ministry of Grace and Justice, for which Azzariti was responsible almost without interruption from 1927 until 1949, except for the period between 25 July 1943 and 4 June 1944.

Republic of San Marino.[1]

A convinced

antisemite, Azzariti stated in a speech of 28 March 1942 that "the dominant egalitarianism ... regardless of age, sex, religion or race", was no longer "a kind of indisputable dogma", and that with fascism "it is now shelved in the attic", and that "racial diversity is an insuperable obstacle to the establishment of personal relationships, from which biological or psychic alterations to the purity of our people may arise."[4] In 1938. he adhered to the Manifesto of Race, which played a significant role in the promulgation of the Italian racial laws, and became president of a commission, the Tribunal for the Race, established at the Directorate General for Demography and Race of the Ministry of the Interior.[1][nb 1] The commission could declare "non-belonging to the Jewish race even in discrepancy with the results of the civil status documents", and accepted 104 of the 143 requests submitted in this regard.[5][nb 2] Azzariti would later claim that he had merely "turned into law the wishes of Mussolini" and that as president of the Tribunal for the Race he had "softened" the implementation of the racial laws.[6]

Later life and career

On 25 July 1943, following the

liberation of Rome in June 1944, he resumed service at the legislative office of the Ministry of Grace and Justice. On 22 December 1944, the Italian Social Republic ordered his retirement, which had no effect as he was in Allied-controlled territory.[1]

From June 1945 to July 1946, Azzariti collaborated with the Minister of Justice

Italian Republican Constitution, and on 6 April 1957 became president of the Court on until 5 January 1961, the day of his death in Rome.[1][6]

In 1970, his native Naples had dedicated a street to him. In May 2015, the city council unanimously approved a motion to rename the street after Luciana Pacifici, a Jewish child from Naples who was murdered in the Holocaust, becoming Naples' youngest victim of the Shoah.[7] In March 2019, the Municipality of Naples decided the removal of the plaque affixed to the facade of the building where Azzariti had been born.[8]

Works

Among his main works are Dell'esercizio delle azioni commerciali e della loro durata (1933, with Lodovico Mortara) and Problemi attuali di diritto costituzionale (1952).[9]

Honours

Notes

  1. ^ See "Norme integrative del R. decreto-legge 17 novembre 1938-XVII, n. 1728, sulla difesa della razza italiana". Radies (in Italian). Università degli Studi di Catania – Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza. October 2008. Archived from the original on 8 April 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  2. ^ See "Norme integrative del Regio decreto legge 17 novembre 1938-XVII, n. 1728, sulla difesa della razza italiana". Olokaustos (in Italian). 2004. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2024.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Azzariti, Gaetano". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Vol. 34. Rome: Italian Encyclopedia Institute. 1988. Retrieved 23 April 2024 – via Treccani.
  2. ISBN 978-88-86922-11-1
    . Retrieved 23 April 2024 – via Google Books.
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-88-15-30988-4
    . Retrieved 23 April 2024 – via Google Books.
  4. ISSN 2499-0485
    . Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  5. ISBN 978-88-14-14647-3
    . Retrieved 23 April 2024 – via Google Books.
  6. ^
    ISSN 2499-3980
    . Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  7. ISSN 2499-0817
    . Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  8. ISSN 1721-0690
    . Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  9. ^ "Azzariti, Gaetano". Treccani (in Italian). Rome: Italian Encyclopedia Institute. 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
  10. ^ "Azzariti Dott. Gaetano – Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana". Quirinale (in Italian). 2022. Retrieved 23 April 2024.

Bibliography

External links
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