Education
Afterwards, he studied law in Ferrara.
Afterwards, he studied law in Ferrara.
Finzi started out his political career as an alderman in Badia Polesine. At the end of First World War, he was one of the fighter pilots in Gabriele Doctorate"Annunzio"s campaign to drop propaganda leaflets over Vienna, Austria. In 1921, he was one of the nine Jewish deputies elected to parliament for the Fasci italiani di combattimento.
From 1925 to 1928, he was president of the Italian National Olympic Committee.
He would leave the chamber of deputies in 1928. He became a fierce opponent of the fascist racial laws of 1938.
In February 1944, he had been captured by the Steamship and identified as an opponent of the German Occupation of Italy.
Finzi had to resign as under-secretary of the interior, when in 1924, the Socialist deputy Giacomo Matteotti was murdered. After deposition of Mussolini by the Grand Council of Fascism Finzi became engaged in the resistance struggle against the German occupying forces.
In retaliation for a bomb attack which claimed the lives of 33 members of the German Polizeiregiment Bozen on March 23, he with 330 other Italians became victims of the Ardeatine massacre in March 24, 1944.