Maurizio Maraviglia was an Italian

Italy

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 politician and academic.

A functionary in the Ministry of Public Information, Maraviglia was a member of the Italian Socialist Party

Italian Socialist Party

The Italian Socialist Party was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy founded in Genoa in 1892.Once the dominant leftist party in Italy, it was eclipsed in status by the Italian Communist Party following World War II...

 until 1906. Moving to the right he became a supporter of nationalism

Nationalism

Nationalism is a political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms, i.e. a nation. In the 'modernist' image of the nation, it is nationalism that creates national identity. There are various definitions for what...

 and a founder member of the Italian Nationalist Association

Italian Nationalist Association

The Italian Nationalist Association, Associazione Nazionalista Italiana was Italy's first nationalist political party founded in 1910. under the influence of Italian nationalists such as Enrico Corradini and Giovanni Papini...

 in 1910. An important figure in the development of their ideology, he was part of the editorial staff of L'Idea Nazionale

L'Idea Nazionale

L'Idea Nazionale was an Italian political newspaper associated with the Italian Nationalist Association, which merged with the Fascist Party in 1923. The party advocated militarist nationalism and creation of an Italian empire. It was founded by Italian nationalist Enrico Corradini...

. Following service in the First World War he also wrote for the influential Politica journal of Francesco Coppola

Francesco Coppola

Francesco Coppola was prominent Italian journalist and politician in the twentieth century who associated with Italian nationalism and later Italian Fascism....

 and Alfredo Rocco

Alfredo Rocco

Alfredo Rocco was an Italian politician and jurist.Rocco was born in Naples.He was Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Urbino and in Macerata , then Professor of Civil Procedure in Parma, of Business Law in Padua, and later of Economic Legislation at "La Sapienza" University of Rome,...

. He came to identify with fascism

Fascism

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 and was part of the negotiation team that secured the merger between the Associaition and the National Fascist Party

National Fascist Party

The National Fascist Party was an Italian political party, created by Benito Mussolini as the political expression of fascism...

.

Under the fascists Maraviglia initially enjoyed a high profile. He served in the Italian Chamber of Deputies

Italian Chamber of Deputies

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 for Calabria

Calabria

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-Lucania

Lucania

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 from 1924 to 1939 before graduating to the Italian Senate

Italian Senate

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. He was appointed to the Grand Council of Fascism

Grand Council of Fascism

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 in 1938 and managed to secure a position at the University of Perugia

University of Perugia

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 as an academic alongside Sergio Panunzio

Sergio Panunzio

Sergio Panunzio was an Italian theoretician of revolutionary syndicalism. In the 1920s, he became a major theoretician of Italian Fascism....

. His profile fell in later years after he was implicated in fraud at the Banca del Sud. He was adjudged to have no war guilt charges to answer and took no part in post-war politics.