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Giovanni Antonio Colonna di Cesarò

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Giovanni Antonio Colonna di Cesarò
Minister of Post and Telegraphs
In office
February 1922 – 1924
Prime MinisterBenito Mussolini
Succeeded byCostanzo Ciano
Minister of Post and Telegraphs
In office
15 May 1921 – 1921
Prime MinisterGiovanni Giolitti
Personal details
Born
Giovanni Antonio Colonna di Cesarò

1878
Died1940 (aged 61–62)
Political partySocial Democracy

Giovanni Antonio Colonna (1878–1940) was an Italian noble and politician who was the leader of the Social Democracy. He also served as the minister of post and telegraphs between 1922 and 1924 in the cabinet of Benito Mussolini. He was known as the "anthroposophist duke".[1]

Biography

Colonna was born in 1878.[1] From 1907 he started his political career and became a member of the parliament in the period 1909–1921.[2] He founded and published a magazine entitled Rassegna contemporanea which is among the early anthroposophical publications.[1] As of 1914 he was a members of the Italian Olympic Committee.[3]

Following the general elections on 15 May 1921 he was named as the minister of post and telegraphs in the cabinet led by Giovanni Giolitti.[2] In 1922 Colonna established the Social Democratic Party and joined the government of Benito Mussolini as the minister of post and telegraphs which he held until his resignation in February 1924.[1] He was replaced by Costanzo Ciano in the post.[4] Following this incident Colonna retired from politics.[1] His another magazine was Lo Stato Democratico (Italian: The Democratic State) which also published anthroposophical articles.[5]

Close to the environments of esotericism and Roman neopaganism of those years, Colonna was part of the UR Group which was established in 1927 (perhaps with the pseudonym of "Arvo",[6] or with those of "Krur" and "Breno").[7]

Colonna died in 1940.[5]

Views

Colonna was an advocate of colonialism and democratic imperialism.[1] During World War I he supported intervention of the Italian Empire through his writings in Rassegna contemporanea which also reflected his radical national views.[1] However, Colonna did not have a consistent political ideology. Instead, he adopted distinct political views depending on the conditions.[1] Following his retirement from politics Colonna became an anti-Fascist.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Peter Staudenmaier (2012). "Anthroposophy in Fascist Italy". In Arthur Versluis; Lee Irwin; Melinda Phillips (eds.). Esotericism, Religion, and Politics. Minneapolis, MN: New Cultures Press. pp. 83–84. ISBN 978-1596500136.
  2. ^ a b Marc Raboy (2016). Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 463. ISBN 978-0-19-931359-4.
  3. ^ Tito Forcellese (2020). "Italian aristocrats and their involvement in sports institutions, 1894–1914". In Peter Heyrman; Jan de Maeyer (eds.). Leisure and Elite Formation. Arenas of Encounter in Continental Europe, 1815-1914. Berlin; Boston, MA: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. p. 174. doi:10.1515/9783110585193. ISBN 9783110582307. S2CID 243202437.
  4. ^ Goffredo Adinolfi (September 2004). "Fascist Era Elites (2). The Fascist ministerial elite". Portuguese Journal of Social Science. 3 (2): 94. doi:10.1386/pjss.3.2.91/0.
  5. ^ a b Julius Evola (2018). Introduction to Magic: Rituals and Practical Techniques for the Magus. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions/Bear. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-62055-857-7.
  6. ^ Michele Beraldo (2006). "L'Antroposofia e il suo rapporto con il Regime Fascista". In Gianfranco de Turris (ed.). Esoterismo e fascismo: storia, interpretazioni, documenti (in Italian). Rome: Edizioni mediterranee. p. 83. ISBN 978-88-272-1831-0.
  7. ^ Renato Del Ponte, Evola and the magical Group of UR. Studies and documents to serve the history of «Ur-Krur», Borzano (Reggio Emilia), SeaR, 1994, cf. Maurizio Martucci (2018). "Il magico Gruppo di Ur-Krur" (in Italian).
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