Not to be confused with the medieval Florentine politician Puccio Pucci (politician)

Puccio Pucci (politician)

Puccio Pucci was a Florentine politician and the founder of the main branch of the Pucci family....

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Puccio Pucci (born 2 November 1915) was an Italian lawyer and sports official. He was the son of the notary Pietro Pucci, a former director of the Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera

Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera

FIDAL is the governing body for athletics in Italy since 1906....

, who was killed in Libya during the Second World War. Puccio's brother was the designer Emilio Pucci

Emilio Pucci

Emilio Pucci, Marquis of Barsento , was a Florentine Italian fashion designer and politician. He and his eponymous company are synonymous with geometric prints in a kaleidoscope of colours.-Early life:...

. He was born in Naples.

Life

During the Second World War Puccio served as a captain in the air force and was awarded the Medaglia di Bronzo al Valor Militare twice. As right-hand-man to Alessandro Pavolini

Alessandro Pavolini

Alessandro Pavolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and essayist, notable for his involvement in the Fascist government during World War II and also for his cruelty against the opponents of fascism....

, the secretary of the Partito Fascista Repubblicano, Puccio helped form the infamous Black Brigades

Black Brigades

Black Brigades were one of the Fascist paramilitary groups operating in the Italian Social Republic , during the final years of World War II, and after the signing of the Italian Armistice in 1943...

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Upon the Armistice, on 18 March 1944 he was made president of the Italian National Olympic Committee on the basis of his experience with FIDAL.{[what}} After many months in post, he was definitively removed from the national sporting movement of the kingdom of the south, officially from 28 June 1944, when presidente del consiglio of free Italy Ivanoe Bonomi

Ivanoe Bonomi

Ivanoe Bonomi was an Italian politician and statesman before and after World War II.Bonomi was born in Mantua. He was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1909, representing Mantua as a member of the Italian Socialist Party...

 appointed commissario Giulio Onesti in Puccio's place. After the war Puccio retired to his family's ancestral home at the 16th century Palazzo Pucci in Florence

Florence

Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

, renovating its central courtyard in works completed in 1980. Until 31 December 1947 he was the 12th marchese of Barsento.