Alfredo De Marsico

Alfredo De Marsico (29 May 1888 – 8 August 1985) was an Italian Fascist politician who served as the last Minister of Justice of the Mussolini Cabinet from February to July 1943.

He was born in 1888 in the province of Salerno and graduated in law in 1909 at the University of Naples, beginning his career as a lawyer on 5 December of the same year.

[7] From 1925 to 1942 he was a member of the parliamentary commission for the reform of codes, and on 6 February 1943 Mussolini appointed him as Minister of Justice, in place of Dino Grandi.

[8][9][10] A member of the Grand Council of Fascism, on 25 July 1943 he voted in favor of the Grandi motion which led to the dismissal of Mussolini and the fall of the regime.

[11][12] He was therefore sentenced to death in absentia by the Italian Social Republic in the Verona trial of 1944, but he had meanwhile taken refuge in Salerno, in Allied-controlled southern Italy.