Cogni could not read or write, and she left her husband to move into Byron's Venice house. |
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In 1936, Mussolini decided to launch a racial programme in Italy, and was interested in the racial studies being conducted by Giulio Cogni. |
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Cogni was a Nordicist but did not equate Nordic identity with Germanic identity as was commonly done by German Nordicists. |
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As such, Cogni viewed Southern Italian Mediterraneans as being polluted with orientalizing tendencies. |
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