Ferdinando Martini

Ferdinando Martini (30 July 1841 – 24 April 1928) was an Italian writer and politician.

Biography

Born in Florence, he worked as journalist and writer. He collaborated with Il Fanfulla and in 1879 he founded the Fanfulla della domenica literary supplement, which he directed until 1882; he was also editor of La Domenica letteraria from 1882 al 1885 and professor at the University of Pisa.

In 1876 he was elected in the Italian Parliament, a position he held for 43 years. He was Minister of Colonies in the Salandra I and Salandra II cabinets, and Minister of the Public Instruction in the first Giolitti cabinet. Martini was also governor of Eritrea from 1897 to 1907.

On 1 March 1923 he was created Senator of the Italian Kingdom. In 1925 he was one of the signers of Giovanni Gentile's Manifesto of the Fascist intellectuals.

He died at Monsummano Terme in 1928.

Sources

A Ferdinando Martini nel centenario della nascita. Monsummano Terme. 1941.

External links

Works by or about Ferdinando Martini at Internet Archive

Political offices
Preceded by Antonio Baldissera	Governor of Eritrea 1897–1907	Succeeded by Giuseppe Salvago Raggi
Preceded by Pietro Bertolini	Italian Minister of Colonies 1914–1916	Succeeded by Gaspare Colosimo

Italian Governors of Eritrea and Somaliland

Governors of Eritrea (1890-1941)	Baldassarre Orero^cm Antonio Gandolfi^cm Oreste Baratieri^cm Antonio Baldissera Ferdinando Martini Giuseppe Salvago Raggi Giovanni Cerrina Feroni Giacomo De Martino Camillo De Camillis Ludovico Pollera Giovanni Cerrina Feroni Jacopo Gasparini Corrado Zoli Riccardo Di Lucchesi Ottone Gabelli^v Emilio De Bono Pietro Badoglio Alfredo Guzzoni^p Vincenzo De Feo^p Giuseppe Daodice^p Luigi Frusci^p

Governors of Somaliland (1889-1941)	Vincenzo Filonardi Vacant (1893-96) Vincenzo Filonardi^c Emilio Dulio^c Giorgio Sorrentino^c Emilio Dulio Luigi Mercatelli^cg Giuseppe Salvago Raggi^cg Tommaso Carletti^cg Tommaso Carletti Giacomo De Martino Giovanni Cerrina Feroni Carlo Riveri Cesare Maria De Vecchi Guido Corni Maurizio Rava Rodolfo Graziani Angelo De Ruben^p Ruggiero Santini^p Francesco Saverio Caroselli^p Gustavo Pesenti^p Carlo De Simone^p

cm=Commanders. c=Commissioners. cg=Commissioners-General. v=Vice-Governor. p=As a part of Italian East Africa

Ministers of the Italian Colonies

Ministers of the Colonies (1912–1937)	Pietro Bertolini Ferdinando Martini Gaspare Colosimo Luigi Rossi Francesco Saverio Nitti Bartolomeo Meuccio Ruini Luigi Rossi Giuseppe Girardini Giovanni Amendola Luigi Federzoni Pietro Lanza di Scalea Luigi Federzoni Benito Mussolini Emilio De Bono Benito Mussolini Alessandro Lessona

Ministers of Italian Africa (1937–1953)	Alessandro Lessona Benito Mussolini Attilio Teruzzi Melchiade Gabba Pietro Badoglio Ivanoe Bonomi Ferruccio Parri Alcide De Gasperi

Italics indicate interim minister

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 17276803 LCCN: n91116427 ISNI: 0000 0001 2277 0100 GND: 119188244 SUDOC: 031072836 BNF: cb12236066s (data) ULAN: 500322195 ICCU: IT\ICCU\CFIV\054845 BNE: XX1148606

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