Career
Born in the Tuscan town of San Piero a Sieve, he started his career as a lawyer Under the direction of Doctorate"Annunzio he became the propaganda chief in Fiume. He worked with Benito Mussolini to set up a number of Fascist squads that attacked a group of allegedly separatist Slovenes in northern Istria.
As a Fascist leader (ras) of Trieste, he built up an early mass support base for the Fascist movement.
In July 1920, he led the squad that burnt down the Narodni dom, the community centre of the Slovenes in Trieste. Giunta gained fame in March 1922 when he followed the example of Doctorate"Annunzio by staging a coup in the Free State of Fiume with 2000 followers and by doing so laying down the foundations for the official Italian takeover in 1924.
In October 1922, he commanded the Fascists from the Julian March on the March on Rome. He became national secretary of the National Fascist Party in succession to Michele Bianchi in 1923 and oversaw the move towards an increasingly diminished role for the party rank and file as Mussolini consolidated his government.
Replaced by Roberto Farinacci the following year, Giunta settled into an undersecretary"s role in the cabinet office.
In this role he was pivotal in signalling one of the future intentions of Italian foreign policy when he stated in an April 1933 visit to Malta that he was on Italian soil and that the future of the island lay in complete union with Italy. In February 1943, he succeeded Giuseppe Bastianini as the Governor of A fervent anti-Yugoslav since the times of his activity in the South Slav-inhabited Julian March, Giunta brought a number of his old colleagues from Trieste with himself. His regime became noted for its brutality against the local Croat population, and a fierce repression of the Yugoslav partisan movement present in the area.
After World World War II, Yugoslavia demanded the extradition of Giunta, so that he could be tried for war crimes committed in Yugoslavia.
The Yugoslav demand was rejected by both Italy and the Allies. Giunta settled in Rome, where he died in 1971.