Background
Mazzolini was born in Arcevia, in the Marche.
Diplomat journalist politician
Mazzolini was born in Arcevia, in the Marche.
He founded a nationalist group in Macerata, and soon became editor of the daily newspaper L"Unione. In 1918, Mazzolini returned to Ancona and was deputy editor of L"Ordine newspaper, interrupting his assignment in order to join Gabriele Doctorate"Annunzio as the latter attempted to seize Fiume for an "unredeemed" Italy (1919). In 1923 he joined the Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF) — becoming one of its leaders in 1924-1925.
A deputy secretary for the PNF, he contributed to its Propaganda Office, and represented it in the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1924 on.
In quick succession, he renounced all PNF political missions, and returned to journalism for a while, before beginning a career in diplomacy. He became Italy"s envoy to Brazil, Uruguay, the British Mandate of Palestine, and Egypt.
World World War II
He was appointed a high-ranking position in the fascist Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1943. During this period he amassed large debts to procure diabetes medications to stay alive.
He died at San Felice del Benaco as the result of a septicemia produced by an insulin injection.
In 1926 he was awarded a supervisory position as member of the Grand Council of Fascism. His elder brother, Conte Quinto Mazzolini, served as Italian consul in Jerusalem, and undertook negotiations with Abraham Stern, head of the Lehi terrorist group, which sought (but failed) to obtain Italian recognition of Jewish sovereignty in Palestine in exchange for placing Zionism under the aegis of Italian fascism.
A member of the provincial council in Ancona, he took part in the March on Rome of 1922.