Tito Zaniboni
Italian politician (1883–1960)
Tito Zaniboni (1 February 1883 – 9 December 1960) was an Italian politician. He was best known for carrying out the first assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini on 4 November 1925.
Life
Zaniboni lived in Boston from 1906 to 1908, but decided to do his military service with the 8th Alpine Regiment, which he completed as a second lieutenant in the reserve.
Socialist provincial council and military service
He was a supporter of the Italian Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Italiano; PSI), or rather its reformist wing. In 1914, he was elected to the provincial council of the Province of Mantua as a representative of the Volta Mantovana constituency. He became secretary of the Italian cooperative association Federazione delle Cooperative in Mantua between 1913 and 1915 and worked for the newspaper Nuova Terra, where he initially wrote against Italy's participation in World War I, but then swung around to support the war effort. During the war, he served again in his old regiment based in Udine, rose to the rank of major and received various awards, eventually becoming a tenente colonnello.
Brief sympathy for fascism
After the war, he initially sympathized with Gabriele D'Annunzio's plans regarding the territorial claims around Fiume and briefly supported the newspaper Il Popolo d'Italia, a paper published by Mussolini in 1914.
Mayor of Manzambano (1920) and member of parliament
In 1920, he was re-elected as a member of the provincial council and, in the same year, became mayor of Monzambano. He became a Freemason in 1920 and, in the parliamentary elections of 1921, was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in Rome for the Socialists.
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