Not much is currently known about Antonio Reggiani (1881–1960). The little we know derives from his own writings. Reggiani was an accountant working for the Ministry of Finance. He was freemason and, from 1931, knight of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus. During the ventennio, Reggiani was a convinced Fascist, joining the Fascist National Party in 1933 (Reggiani 1951: 2). He was a member of the Roman Committee of the Royal Institute for the History of the Risorgimento and served as vice-president of the “Giuseppe Garibaldi” Society and general secretary of the executive commission for the construction of the Garibaldian Ossuary Mausoleum. After World War II, in 1947, he attempted to dissimulate his past alignment with Mussolini’s regime by ordering the destruction of the Italian Fascist inscriptions of the mausoleum.

Bibliography

Reggiani, Antonio, and Mario Lizzani. 1942. Ai caduti per Roma MDCCCXLIX – MDCCCLXX. Rome: Atena, 4–5.

———. 1951. Le confessioni di un settuagenario. Biblioteca romana ed emeroteca, Lizzani 268.1. 

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