Edoardo Zavattari (21 October 1883, Tortona – 17 February 1972)[1] (born 21 October 1883 in Tortona, in the province of Alexandria, in Piedmont and died on 17 February 1972 in Genoa) was an Italian zoologist who was a director at the Institute of Zoology in the Sapienza University of Rome from 1935 to 1953.
[2] He supported fascism and antisemitism on the basis of his ideas from biology and was a signatory to the "Manifesto della Razza".
[6] In the 1920s and 1930s Zavattari was a supporter of the regime of Benito Mussolini and the National Fascist Party and their theories on biological racism.
[7] In 1938, he was one of the ten signatories of the Manifesto of racist scientists whose text, enriched by Guido Landra but conceived and modified by Mussolini, was presented as the founding act of the fascists' racial laws.
Zavattari wrote several articles in the magazine La Difesa della Razza, which was edited by the extreme antisemite, Telesio Interlandi.