Gabriello Carnazza Explained

Office:Minister for Public Works
Primeminister:Benito Mussolini
Predecessor:Office established
Successor:Gino Sarrocchi
Term Start:31 October 1922
Term End:1 July 1924
Birth Date:1871
Party:National Fascist Party
Occupation:Lawyer
Nationality:Italian

Gabriello Carnazza (1871–1931) was an Italian lawyer and politician who was the minister of public works in the first cabinet of Benito Mussolini.

Biography

Carnazza was born in 1871.[1] He hailed from a Sicilian family. He was a lawyer by profession.[2] He had a liberal political stance before joining the National Fascist Party in the early 1920s.[3]

Carnazza was appointed minister of public works in the first cabinet of Benito Mussolini in 1922.[3] During his term a law on the classification and maintenance of public roads dated 15 November 1923 was put into force which has been called the "Carnazza decree" or "Carnazza law".[4] He died in 1931.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ottocento - Novecento. Comune di Catania. 9 December 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211006045019/https://www.comune.catania.it/la-citta/culture/progetto-culturale-per-catania/storia/ottocento-novecento.aspx. 6 October 2021 . Italian. 1 July 2014.
  2. Giovanna Canciullo. Il Mezzogiornio e la Grande Depressione. Capitale Straniero, Imprenditori e Trafficanti tra Crisi e Trasformazioni. Studi Storici. July–September 2013. 694. 3. 54. 43592509.
  3. Book: Claudia Karagoz. Giovanna Summerfield. Sicily and the Mediterranean: Migration, Exchange, Reinvention. Palgrave Macmillan US. 2015. 978-1-137-48693-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=HbShCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT142. 142. Lina Insana. Sicily, terra ballerina: Shifting Terrain in a Contested Fascist-Era Mediterranean. New York.
  4. Book: Massimo Moraglio . Driving Modernity. Technology, Experts, Politics, and Fascist Motorways, 1922–1943. 37. 2017. Berghahn Books. New York, Oxford. 9781785334498. 19 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220319113534/https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/31281/632447.pdf?sequence=1.