[1][2][3] In 1919 he was sent to Albania, and after returning to Italy he joined the National Fascist Party (PNF) from 1921, together with his younger brothers Massimiliano and Bruno, taking part in the March on Rome the following year.

In these clashes he lost a relative, Costantino Ghisellini, killed in an ambush in 1942; in the same year he was awarded a Bronze Medal of Military Valor for an action near Križpolje on 13 August.

Igino Ghisellini was proposed by Alessandro Pavolini as a federal secretary of the Republican Fascist Party of Ferrara, which would arise from the former PNF.

Most sources credit the assassination to the Gruppi di Azione Patriottica, but some historians have suggested instead that Ghisellini was murdered by enemies among his own Fascist comrades.

[9][10][11][12][13][14][15] To avenge his death, a punitive team was organized by Pavolini himself, led by prefect Enrico Vezzalini, Blackshirt colonel Giovanni Battista Riggio and PFR delegate for Emilia-Romagna Franz Pagliani, which reached Ferrara in the afternoon of 14 November.