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Lelio Basso was an Italian democratic socialist politician and journalist.

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Alberto Cavallari was an Italian journalist and writer.

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Mariateresa Di Lascia was an Italian politician and writer, activist, human rights' supporter and advocate of non-violence.

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Giorgio Locchi was an Italian journalist and writer. He was among the founders of GRECE.

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Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian Renaissance diplomat, philosopher and writer, best known for The Prince, written in 1513. He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science.

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The "Manifesto of Fascist Intellectuals", by the actualist philosopher Giovanni Gentile, formally establishes the political and ideologic foundations of Italian Fascism. It justifies the political violence of the Blackshirt paramilitaries of the National Fascist Party, in the revolutionary realisation of Italian Fascism as the authoritarian and totalitarian rėgime of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, who ruled Italy as Il Duce, from 1922 to 1943.

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Filippo Mazzei was an Italian physician, winemaker, and arms dealer. A close friend of Thomas Jefferson, Mazzei acted as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.

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Giuseppe Montanelli was an Italian statesman and author.

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Paolo Alberto Rossi was an Italian diplomat who experienced the fall of Shanghai during the communist Shanghai Campaign and authored The Communist Conquest of Shanghai: A Warning to the West.