Giovanni Preziosi

Giovanni Preziosi (24 October 1881 in Torella dei Lombardi – 26 April 1945 in Milan) was an Italian fascist politician noted for his antisemitism.

Born into a middle-class family, he joined the priesthood after completing his studies and, although he was defrocked in 1911, he remained a lifelong adherent of conservative Catholicism. He then followed a career in journalism, founding the Vita Italian all'estero as a magazine for emigrants. This was followed by his journal La Vita Italiana, which was noted for its antisemitism in the run-up to World War I. He soon became involved in right-wing politics, eventually becoming a member of Benito Mussolini's fascists and taking part in the March on Rome.

Preziosi was not initially an anti-Semite but after Italy's poor returns for the involvement in the First World War he came to blame the Jews for the country's ills. He accused the Jews of being incapable of being fully Italian due to what he considered to be their "double loyalties" and the growth of Zionism and believed in the notions of a conspiracy between the Jews, communism, Freemasonry, capitalism and democracy. Much of his thought was derived from La Libre Parole, a newspaper founded by Edouard Drumont, Howell Arthur Gwynne's The Cause of World Unrest and The Dearborn Independent of Henry Ford. He became the first to translate into Italian in 1921. Such was the strength of his conviction that Preziosi even attacked fellow anti-Semite Paolo Orano for his 'soft' stance on Jews.

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