Giuseppe Bottai (3 September 1895 – 9 January 1959) was an Italian journalist and member of the National Fascist Party of Benito Mussolini.

He graduated at Liceo Torquato Tasso and attended the Sapienza University of Rome until the 1915, when Italy declared war to the Central Powers.

[1] In 1919, Bottai met Benito Mussolini during a Futurist meeting,[2] and contributed to establish the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento (Italian Fasces of Combat).

[3] At the same time, he also started a journalist career in the Il Popolo d'Italia, the newspaper of the recently founded National Fascist Party.

During the March on Rome, Bottai was along with Ulisse Igliori and Gino Calza-Bini the head of the Roman squadrismo, supporting the Blackshirts' political violence.

[7] He also co-worked with art critics Giulio Carlo Argan and Cesare Brandi to improve the Italian cultural life.

Returning in Italy in 1953, Bottai founded the periodical ABC (not to be confused with the magazine with the same name) and Il Popolo di Roma, which was financed by ex-fascist Vittorio Cini, who supported centrist and conservative views.