Nello Quilici (1890–1940) composed the Italian text for the inscription of the Arco dei Fileni, which was translated into Latin by Giorgio Pasquali. Quilici was a journalist and editor of Corriere Padano, a newspaper founded by the leading Fascist Italo Balbo. He also taught modern political history for a decade (1928–38) at the University of Ferrara (Roveri 2006: 46). Quilici was a staunch supporter of Italy’s racial laws, promulgated in 1938, and he wrote in support of them in Nuova Antologia. In 1940, he travelled to Libya where the plane he was in, along with Balbo, Governor of Libya at the time, crashed. All on board perished.

Bibliography

Roveri, Alessandro. 2006. Tutta la verità su Quilici, Balbo e le leggi razziali. Ferrara: Este Edition.

Samuel Agbamu