Giulio Cogni

• Name — Giulio Cogni • Born — 10 January 1908 • Birthplace — Siena • Died — 15 November 1983 • Occupation — writer, racial theorist, music composer, music critic • Period — Italian Fascism intellectuals

Giulio Cogni taught psychology and musical esthetics at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini. He published articles in the publications, including Il Mattino, Il Messaggero, La Sicilia and Gazzetta del Sud. Cogni was also an Italian racial theorist and member of the National Fascist Party of Italy. Cogni published Il Razzismo (1936) and sent it to Duce Benito Mussolini to review, initially Mussolini was not impressed with the work, however Cogni's ideas later entered into the official Fascist racial policy several years later. Mussolini appointed him to the editorial board of La Difesa della Razza, a recist magazine initiated in 1938. However, Cogni was removed from the post when he protested Mussolini and other leading fascist figures claiming that they had been using his views without making a reference to him. In 1941 Giulio Cogni went to Weimar in Nazi Germany, where he met collaborating European writers and joined the Europäische Schriftstellervereinigung (European Writers' League), which was founded by Joseph Goebbels.