Giovanni Giuriati
| Giovanni Giurati | |
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| President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies | |
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In office 20 April 1929 – 19 January 1934 |
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| Preceded by | Antonio Casertano |
| Succeeded by | Costanzo Ciano |
| 2nd President of the Free State of Fiume | |
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In office 22 March 1922 – 16 September 1923 |
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| Preceded by | Riccardo Zanella |
| Succeeded by |
Office abolished Gaetano Giardino (as military governor of Fiume) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
4 August 1876 Venice, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 6 May 1970 (aged 93) Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Political party |
Autonomist Association (1896–1914) Italian Nationalist Association (1914–1923) National Fascist Party (1923–1943) |
Giovanni Giuriati (4 August 1876 – 6 May 1970) was an Italian Fascist politician.
Giuriati was born in Venice.
A law graduate and lawyer, he associated in 1903 with the irredentist group Trento e Trieste ("Trento and Trieste" - regions which it aimed to have secede from Austria-Hungary), and soon became its president. In early 1915, he channelled aid from Italians in Austria for the earthquake-hit town of Avezzano, and volunteered as a soldier in World War I. Wounded in the First Battle of the Isonzo, and again in the Third, he was twice decorated.
He returned to his legal practice as the war ended, but decided to follow the paramilitary movement of Gabriele D'Annunzio, as it attempted to seize the "unredeemed" and disputed port of Fiume (today Rijeka). Their forces were defeated in December 1920 by regular Italian troops, after they had ignored the provisions of the Treaty of Rapallo, and had even declared war on Italy. Nonetheless, Giuriati briefly served as provisoral President of the territory after a coup d'état against the government Free State of Fiume in March 1922 (in 1924, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia would renounce claim to the city). In the meanwhile, he had joined the Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), being elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1921.
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