{{Short description|Italian fascist leader (1895–1953)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox person |image = |image_size = |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = 13 July 1895 |birth_place = Milan, Kingdom of Italy |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1953|10|19|1895|7|13}} |death_place = Rome, Italy |death_cause = |restingplace = |alma_mater = |occupation = |years_active = |spouse = |children = |parents = }} '''Rino Parenti''' (13 July 1895 – 19 October 1953) was an Italian fascist leader.<ref name=lassereno>{{cite journal|author=Harold D. Lasswell|author2=Renzo Sereno|title=Governmental and Party Leaders in Fascist Italy|journal=The American Political Science Review|date=October 1937|volume=31|issue=5|pages=914–929|jstor=1947917|doi=10.2307/1947917|s2cid=146969040 }}</ref>
==Biography== Parenti was born in Milan on 13 July 1895.<ref name=lassereno/><ref name=came>{{cite web|url=http://storia.camera.it/deputato/rino-efre-parenti-18950713#nav|title=Rino (Efre) Parenti/Deputati|work=Camera dei deputati|access-date=14 February 2015}}</ref> He was a non-commissioned officer during World War I.<ref name=lassereno/> He became fascist in 1919 and participated in local squad militant.<ref name=lassereno/> He was cofounder of the first ''Fascio di combattimento'' movement which laid the basis of the Italian Fascist Party.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Luca La Rovere|title=The 'Examination of Conscience' of the Nation: The Lost Debate About the 'Collective Guilt' in Italy, 1943–5 |journal=Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions|year=2008|volume=9|issue=2–3|page=195 |doi=10.1080/14690760802094826|s2cid=219623339 }}</ref> He served at local party and was the federal secretary of the Italian Fascist Party for Milan (''federale'' of Milan) from 26 June 1933 to 1 January 1940.<ref name="Benadusi2012">{{cite book|author=Lorenzo Benadusi|title=The Enemy of the New Man: Homosexuality in Fascist Italy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NLrCagrmdvwC&pg=PA255|year=2012|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-28390-2|page=255}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Guido Bonsaver|title=Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy|year=2007 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EJSrVdbAHwQC&pg=PA162|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-9496-4|page=162}}</ref> During this period, he succeeded in normalizing Milanese fascism and adapting it to the conditions of the national fascism.<ref name=Benadusi2012/>
Parenti was the president of the Italian National Olympic Committee from 1939 to 1940.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Olympic Dictionary|url=http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Olimpiadi/2008/pdf_dictionary/TheOlympicDictionary_C.pdf|work=Gazzetta|access-date=7 September 2012}}</ref> He was the first president elected according to the new rules.<ref>{{cite book|title=Sport and International Politics|year=1996|publisher=E & FN Spon|location=London|isbn=978-1-1388-8051-1|editor1=Pierre Arnaud|editor2=James Riordan|editor2-link=James Riordan (writer-sportsman)|url=https://www.routledge.com/Sport-and-International-Politics-Impact-of-Facism-and-Communism-on-Sport/Arnaud-Riordan/p/book/9781138880511}}</ref> In 1939 he became a member of the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations, and from 1 September 1942 to 1 August 1943 he served as prefect of Como. After the armistice of Cassibile he joined the Italian Social Republic, and on 1 October 1943 he was appointed prefect of Sondrio, a post he held until the end of the war, when he was arrested and imprisoned.<ref name=came/> Parenti died in Rome on 19 October 1953.<ref name=came/>
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