Lando Ferretti
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Lando Ferretti (2 May 1895 in Pontedera, Province of Pisa – 8 January 1977 in Rome) was an Italian journalist, politician and sports administrator.
Journalism
After studying law and letters at the
Fascism
Ferretti was an early member of the
Ferretti also served as president of the Italian National Olympic Committee and president of the Premio Letteraria Viareggio prize from 1931 to 1939.[1] He was effectively the head of sport in fascist Italy and used his position to campaign vigorously for an increase in participation in sport, linking it to fascist notions of vitality and the development of a disciplined military spirit.[7] He was particularly influential in the growth of rugby union in Italy, lauding the game in the pages of the Corriere della Sera for its "extreme virile physical effort".[8] The Italy national rugby union team made its debut in 1929, during the country's fascist period. Recognising the importance of sport to national identity, as well as the popular status of those skilled at sport, he sought to portray Mussolini himself as "Italy's first and most complete sportsman" and arranged for Il Duce to be regularly photographed horse-riding, skiing, hunting, motor racing, swimming or even just in attendance at sports events.[9]
Ferretti continued to write for the Corriere della Sera during the Republic of Salò.[1] He remained close to Mussolini until the end, fleeing with him to Como in 1945.[1]
Post-war politics
Ferretti was an early member of the
Works
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- Appunti sulla genesi dei Costituti pisani (in Italian). Pisa: Emilio Pacini. 1929.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Philip Rees, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, 1990, p. 125
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- ^ Doug Thompson, State Control in Fascist Italy: Culture and Conformity, 1925–43, Manchester University Press, 1991, p. 129
- ^ a b Christopher Rundle, Publishing Translations in Fascist Italy, p. 15
- ^ Thompson, State Control in Fascist Italy, p. 130
- ^ Gigliola Gori, Italian Fascism and the Female Body: Sport, Submissive Women and Strong Mothers, Routledge, 2012, pp. 110–111
- ^ Timothy J.L. Chandler, John Nauright, Making the Rugby World: Race, Gender, Commerce, Routledge, 2013, pp. 90–91
- ^ Simon Martin, Sport Italia: The Italian Love Affair with Sport, I.B.Tauris, 2011, p. 64
External links
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