He participated in the First World War as an officer of the 5th Bersaglieri Regiment, and was wounded in action and mutilated.

After joining the National Fascist Party, he served as president of the province of Novara and, during the Second World War, as secretary of the Milan Industry Employees Union.

Filmmaker Maurizio Liverani, who in the final part of the war fought in the Italian Resistance, was his nephew.

[1][2][3][4] He became Minister of Communications of the Italian Social Republic on 5 October 1943, following the renunciation of Gaetano Polverelli.

At the end of the war, on 28 April 1945, he was captured with the Duce by the partisans and shot in Dongo.