Corrado Zoli

Corrado Zoli (3 January 1877 – 8 December 1951) was an Italian writer, diplomat and explorer of Africa, born in Palermo. He was the colonial governor of Italian Eritrea from 1928 to 1930.

Biography

Corrado Zoli was born in Palermo. He was a correspondent for both La Stampa and Il Secolo. He participated in the Fezzan expedition and explored the Sahara.

During the War of Libya, he appeared in some photographs taken by the French war correspondent Gaston Chérau, who also mentioned his colleague in letters exchanged with his wife.

In 1919, he had already followed Gabriele D'Annunzio in the Enterprise of Fiume and was appointed foreign undersecretary of the Italian Regency of Carnaro.

He was governor of the colony of Oltregiuba (annexed to Italian Somaliland) from 16 July 1924 to 31 December 1926, and of the Eritrean Colony from 1 June 1928 to February 1930. Later, from 1933 to 1944, he was president of the Italian Geographical Society.

Author of numerous books on expeditions and military history, he also described for the Nuova Antologia the events in Italian East Africa between 1935 and 1937, later collected in a volume, and participated, with his own essay on political geography, together with those of Roberto Almagià, Giotto Dainelli and Attilio Mori, in the publication Africa orientale (1935) by the Italian Geographical Society.

Corrado Zoli died in Rome.

Works

• La guerra turco-bulgara. Studio critico del principale episodio della conflagrazione balcanica del 1912, Società editoriale italiana, Milano 1913.
• Le Giornate di Fiume, Zanichelli, Bologna 1921
• La conquista del Fezzan, Istituto coloniale italiano, Tip. Unione Ed., Roma 1921.
• La battaglia di Adua, Istituto coloniale italiano, Grafia, Roma 1923.
• La battaglia del Piave. Note ed impressioni, Stabilimeto poligrafico per l'amministrazione della guerra, Roma 1923.
• Nel Fezzan: note e impressioni di viaggio, Alfieri & Lacroix, Milano 1926.
• Sud America: note e impressioni di viaggio, Sindacato italiano arti grafiche, Roma 1927.
• Cronache etiopiche, Sindacato italiano arti grafiche, Roma 1930.
• La questione dei confini sud-orientali della Libia, Felice Le Monnier, Firenze 1934.
• Etiopia d'oggi, Soc. An. Ital. Arti Grafiche, Roma 1935.
• La conquista dell'Impero. Cronistoria degli avvenimenti diplomatici, militari e politici dal dicembre 1934-XIII all'aprile 1937-XV, Zanichelli, Bologna 1937.
• L'ultimo conflitto cino-giapponese: 7 luglio 1937-30 marzo 1940, Le Monnier, Firenze 1940.
• Espansione coloniale italiana (1922-1937), L'arnia, Roma 1949.

References

• Migliorini, Elio (1961). "Zoli, Corrado." In: Enciclopedia Italiana, III Appendice. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.

Preceded by Jacopo Gasparini

Italian Governor of Eritrea 1928–1930

Succeeded by Riccardo Di Lucchesi