Giotto Dainelli

Giotto Dainelli Dolfi (19 May 1878 - 16 November 1968) was an Italian geographer, geologist, paleontologist, traveller and writer.

[2] In 1913-1914 he travelled to the Karakoram and Himalayas along with the expedition headed by Filippo De Filippi.

Other members of this expedition included Giorgio Abetti, Nello Venturi Ginori, Camillo Alessandri, Lieutenant Alberto Alessio, engineer John Alfred Spranger, Major Henry Wood of the Survey of India along with surveyors Janma Prasad and Shib Lal, alpine guide Joseph Petigax, and Lieutenant Cesare Antilli.

A supporter of fascist rule, he was favoured by Benito Mussolini who made him Podestà (mayor) of Florence in 1944.

He served as the president of the Academy of Italy from 1944 to 1945, following the assassination of Giovanni Gentile by the Gruppi di Azione Patriottica (gappisti).