Giulio Cogni
Giulio Cogni was an Italian writer, racial theorist, music composer and music critic.
Life
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 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, which was founded by Joseph Goebbels.
Literature by Cogni
Saggio sull’Amore come nuovo principio d’immortalità, Bocca, Torino Il Razzismo Lo Spirito Assoluto, La Nuova Italia, Firenze I valori della stirpe italiana, Bocca, Torino Il Segreto del Genio, Vallecchi, Firenze Le forze segrete della musica, Ticci, Siena Agape Sacre, Ausonia, Siena Agape Eterna, Maia, Siena Che cosa è la musica, Curci, Milano Marco Polo, Una notte nel bosco,- Livret d'opéra Tre sogni per Marina par Alberto SoresinaIo sono te, Meschina, Milano Fra il suo teatro rappresentato: Empedocle I miracoli di Santa Caterina Il fantasma dell’Orto Botanico
- ''Bhagavadgita, il canto del beato''