The Library of Congress > Linked Data Service > LC Name Authority File (LCNAF)

De Vecchi, Cesare Maria, 1884-1959


  • URI(s)

  • Variants

    • Vecchi, Cesare Maria De, 1884-1959
    • Vecchi di Val Cismon, Cesare Maria de, conte, 1884-
    • Devecchi, Cesare Maria, 1884-1959
    • Devecchi, C. M. (Cesare Maria), 1884-1959
    • De Vecchi di Val Cismon, Cesare Maria, 1884-1959
    • Di Val Cismon, Cesare Maria De Vecchi, 1884-1959
    • Val Cismon, Cesare Maria De Vecchi di, 1884-1959
    • Vecchi, Cesare Maria De, Conte di Val Cismon, 1884-1959
    • Vecchi di Val Cismon, Cesare Maria De, 1884-1959

  • Identifies LC/NAF RWO

  • Identifies RWO

      • Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

      • Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

      • Earlier Established Forms

        • Vecchi di Val Cismon, Cesare Maria de, conte, 1884-

      • Sources

        • found: His Il quadrumviro scomodo, c1983:t.p. (Cesare Maria de Vecchi di Val Cismon: Val Cismon is the place the author was from) p. 7 (b. 11/14/1884) p. 272 (died 6/23/1959)
        • found: LC data base, 7-28-87(hdg.: Vecchi di Val Cismon, Cesare Maria de, conte, 1884- )
        • found: Diz. biog., 1973(De Vecchi Cesare Maria (1884-1959))
        • found: Primavera, 1906:t.p. (Cesare Maria Devecchi) cover (C.M. Devecchi)
        • found: Cesare Maria de Vecchi, 193-?:labels (Cesare Maria de Vecchi di Val Cismon)
        • found: Wikipedia, August 30, 2024(Cesare Maria De Vecchi; 1st Conte di Val Cismon; Italian soldier, colonial administrator and fascist politician; born in Casale Monferrato; after graduating in jurisprudence he became a lawyer in Turin; took part in the final events of the First World War, finishing with the rank of captain; on his return to Italy he gave his support to the National Fascist Party; became president of the Turin war veterans and head of the local Fascist squadre; elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1921; became Commandant-General of the Milizia (Blackshirts), and was one of the quadrumvirs who organisd the March on Rome [October 1922]; he became undersecretary at the Treasury and then at the Finance Ministry; governor of Italian Somaliland 1923-1928, and presided over a war of pacification in Somalia, pursuing a "scorched earth policy" from 1925 to 1927; he was made Count of Val Cismon in memory of battles fought by his arditi on Monte Grappa in 1918; appointed a senator by King Victor Emmanuel III; became the first ambassador to the Vatican after the Concordat of 1929; in the 1930s he chaired the Piedmont committee for the history of Risorgimento [unification of Italy in the 19th century]; national Minister of Education 1935-1936, and promoted historiography identifying the House of Savoy as the link between Imperial Rome and fascist Rome; in 1935 the De Vecchi bill was approved, centralizing secondary schools under the government, which decided scholastic curriculums and applied censorship to scholastic textbooks; acted as governor of the Italian Aegean Islands 1936-1941, promoting official use of the Italian language; president of the Italian Numismatic Institute 1939-1943; appointed to the Grand Council of Fascism the next year; on 25 July 1943, voted in favour of the order deposing Mussolini of his role as Fascist Duce; went into hiding in October 1943 with help from the Salesians of Don Bosco, who hid him from Mussolini's Repubblica Sociale Italiana, which condemned De Vecchi to death in absentia in the Verona trial, January 1944; the Salesians him him until 1947, when he escaped to Argentina; after returning to Italy in 1949, he supported the neo-fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI) but refused to accept any office within the MSI; died in Rome)
        • notfound: Vaccaro, G. Panorama biog. degli Ital. d'oggi, 1956;Codignola, A. L'Italia e gli Ital. d'oggi, 1947;Chi รจ? 1957;Diz. gen. degli autori ital. contemp., 1974.

      • Instance Of

      • Scheme Membership(s)

      • Collection Membership(s)

      • Change Notes

        • 1987-08-07: new
        • 2024-08-31: revised

      • Alternate Formats