Guido Mazzali

Guido Mazzali

(Suzzara 1895 – Milan 1960) He was a politician, journalist and advertiser.

An activist in the Socialist Party, on the eve of the First World War, was a key figure in the campaign against Italy's entry into the war.

After the war, he came to Milan to start at the editorial office of Avanti! He worked there until 1926 when Italian Racial Laws prevented him from working as a journalist.

From 1927 to 1938, Mazzali was director of the business organization and advertising technical magazine, "L'Ufficio Moderno."

In 1940, he was arrested and sent to prison, returning to freedom only after the fall of Fascism. Provincial and regional secretary of the PSI, in 1948 he was elected a Member of Parliament.