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Filippo Anfuso (January 1, 1901—december 13 1963) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 writer, diplomat
Diplomacy

Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states. It usually refers to international diplomacy, the conduct of international relations through the intercession of professional diplomats with regard to issues of peace-making, trade, war, economics and culture....
 and Fascist
Fascism

Fascism is a Political radicalism, Authoritarianism Nationalism ideology that aims to create a single-party state with a government led by a dictator who seeks national unity and development by requiring individuals to subordinate self-interest to the collective interest of the nation or Race ....
 politician.

Anfuso was born in Catania
Catania

Catania is an Italy city on the east coast of Sicily facing the Ionian Sea, between Messina and Syracuse, Sicily. It is the capital of the Province of Catania, and with 298,957 inhabitants it is the second-largest city on the island....
. His writing career started with a volume of short stories and poetry he published in 1917. Anfuso subsequently joined as a reporterirredentist
Italia irredenta

Italian irredentism was an Italy nationalist Irredentism movement that aimed to complete the Italian unification of all ethnically Italian peoples....
 poet Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele d'Annunzio was an Italy poet, journalist, novelist, dramatist, and daredevil who went on to have a controversial role in politics as an influence on the Italian Fascist movement and the alleged forerunner of Benito Mussolini....
 in his attempt to seize Fiume
Rijeka

Rijeka is the principal seaport of Croatia, located on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea. It has 144,043 inhabitants and is Croatia's third largest city....
 for Italy (1919-1921). He returned to write for La Nazione and La Stampa
La Stampa

La Stampa is one of the best-known and most widely sold Italy daily newspapers. Published in Turin, it is distributed in Italy and other European nations....
, reporting from various foreign countries.






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Filippo Anfuso (January 1, 1901—december 13 1963) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 writer, diplomat
Diplomacy

Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states. It usually refers to international diplomacy, the conduct of international relations through the intercession of professional diplomats with regard to issues of peace-making, trade, war, economics and culture....
 and Fascist
Fascism

Fascism is a Political radicalism, Authoritarianism Nationalism ideology that aims to create a single-party state with a government led by a dictator who seeks national unity and development by requiring individuals to subordinate self-interest to the collective interest of the nation or Race ....
 politician.

Anfuso was born in Catania
Catania

Catania is an Italy city on the east coast of Sicily facing the Ionian Sea, between Messina and Syracuse, Sicily. It is the capital of the Province of Catania, and with 298,957 inhabitants it is the second-largest city on the island....
. His writing career started with a volume of short stories and poetry he published in 1917. Anfuso subsequently joined as a reporterirredentist
Italia irredenta

Italian irredentism was an Italy nationalist Irredentism movement that aimed to complete the Italian unification of all ethnically Italian peoples....
 poet Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele d'Annunzio was an Italy poet, journalist, novelist, dramatist, and daredevil who went on to have a controversial role in politics as an influence on the Italian Fascist movement and the alleged forerunner of Benito Mussolini....
 in his attempt to seize Fiume
Rijeka

Rijeka is the principal seaport of Croatia, located on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea. It has 144,043 inhabitants and is Croatia's third largest city....
 for Italy (1919-1921). He returned to write for La Nazione and La Stampa
La Stampa

La Stampa is one of the best-known and most widely sold Italy daily newspapers. Published in Turin, it is distributed in Italy and other European nations....
, reporting from various foreign countries. A friend of Galeazzo Ciano
Galeazzo Ciano

Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari , was Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law....
, he passed the exam for a career in diplomacy
Diplomacy

Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states. It usually refers to international diplomacy, the conduct of international relations through the intercession of professional diplomats with regard to issues of peace-making, trade, war, economics and culture....
 at the same time as he (in 1925).

He was appointed to the Swiss Consulate in Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
 (1927), then to the missions in Hungary
Hungary

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 (1929), Germany
Germany

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 (1931), the Republic of China
Republic of China

The Republic of China , also known as Nationalist China is a country in East Asia that has evolved from a single-party state with full global recognition into a multi-party democratic state with Political status of Taiwan....
 (1932), and Greece
Greece

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 (1934). Since 1936, Anfuso also seconded on Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco

Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Te?dulo Franco y Bahamonde, Salgado y Pardo de Andrade , commonly known as Francisco Franco or Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was the dictator and Head of State of Spain from October 1936, and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in 1975....
's side during the Civil War
Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted coup d'?tat by a group of Spanish Army generals, supported by the conservative Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right , Carlist groups and the fascistic Falange, against the government of the Second Spanish Republic, then under the leadership of pr...
. He was decorated for merit. In 1938, after Ciano
Galeazzo Ciano

Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari , was Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law....
 was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs
Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs

As in most countries, in Italy the Minister of Foreign Affairs is one of the most important ministerial positions....
, Anfuso became Ministry head of staff.

In 1942 he became Minister in charge of the Italian Legation in Budapest. In 1943, after Mussolini escaped to Northern Italy
Northern Italy

Northern Italy comprises two areas belonging to Italian NUTS level 1 regions:*North-West : Aosta Valley, Piedmont, Lombardy, Liguria;*North-East : Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Veneto, Trentino-Alto Adige/S?dtirol, Emilia-Romagna....
 with Nazi
Nazi Germany

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 backing, Anfuso served as a diplomat for his newly-founded Italian Social Republic
Italian Social Republic

The Italian Social Republic was a puppet state of Nazi Germany led by the "Duce of the Nation" and "Minister of Foreign Affairs" Benito Mussolini....
, representing it in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
. As Ambassador in Berlin, he had to face the problems related to the presence in Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 of thousands of Italian servicemen deported after the 1943 Armistise. In 1945, he replaced the deceased Serafino Mazzolini
Serafino Mazzolini

Serafino Mazzolini was an Italy lawyer, Fascism politician, and journalist.Mazzolini was born in Arcevia, in the Marche. He founded a Nationalism group in Macerata, and soon became editor of the daily newspaper L'Unione....
 as undersecretary
Undersecretary

An undersecretary is an Executive government official in many countries, frequently a career public servant, who typically acts as a senior administrator or second-in-command to a politically-appointed Cabinet Minister or other government official....
 for the Republic's Foreign Affairs Ministry.

When war ended in defeat, Anfuso made his way to France, but was soon recognized and arrested. He spent two years in prison
Prison

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, and after having been cleared by the French courts, he then exiled himself to Madrid
Madrid

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. In 1950, he returned to Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, going back to journalism and publishing several books. Having adhered to the Neo-fascist
Neo-Fascism

Neo-fascism is a post-World War II ideology that includes significant elements of fascism. The term neo-fascist may apply to groups that express a specific admiration for Benito Mussolini and fascist Italy or any other fascist leader/state....
 Italian Social Movement
Italian Social Movement

The Italian Social Movement, later Italian Social Movement?National Right , was a neo-fascism and, later, national conservatism list of political parties in Italy formed in 1946 by supporters of former dictator Benito Mussolini ....
, he represented it in the Italian Chamber of Deputies
Italian Chamber of Deputies

The Italy Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the Parliament of Italy. It has 630 seats, a majority of which is controlled presently by liberal-conservative party People of Freedom....
. Anfuso died while speaking on the floor in the Parliament
Parliament

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 in Rome
Rome

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.