Background
Covelli was born in Bonito, Campania.
Covelli was born in Bonito, Campania.
He took part in the Second World War as official in the Air Force, and after a series of operations in Tirana and Bari, he received a decoration for military valor. In July of the same year he founded the Monarchist National Party, of which he was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1948, and so would be until 1976. In the meantime he also devoted himself to journalism, becoming director of the Nation Courier.
In 1964 Covelli also held a management role in football, becoming advisor of the Steamship Lazio.
After the merger he duly became chairman of the Italian Social Movement. After receiving a meager result of.06% of the vote in the election of 1979 Covelli retired from the political scene. On January 15, 1998, he was appointed by Victor Emmanuel of Savoy honorary president of the honorific Council of the Senators of the Kingdom.
At his request, he was buried in Bonito, his birthplace.
He graduated in literature and philosophy, in law and political science in the second half of the 1930s, and in 1940 he was a teacher of Latin and Greek in a grammar school in Benevento. In the 1970s he merged his party into the Italian Social Movement, which then became the Italian Social Movement - National Right (the DN standing for destra nazionale or national right). In 1977 Covelli split from the Italian Social Movement and founded National Democracy a national-conservative political party.
In 1946 he was elected a Member of Parliament as a candidate for the National Bloc of Freedom and in the referendum of 2 June he voted to keep the House of Savoy as the royal house of Italy.