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. He published articles in the journals 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 wrote the work 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.
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