Arnaldo Azzi (23 December 1885 – 25 November 1957) was a general of Italy during World War II who commanded the Italian 41st Infantry Division "Firenze" during the war.
Biography[]
Arnaldo Azzi was born on 23 December 1885 in Ceneselli, Italy. In 1910, he joined the Royal Italian Army and served in the Italo-Turkish War and World War I, leading a battalion of the 218th Italian Infantry Brigade in the latter war. On 17 August 1935 he was promoted to Colonel and led the Italian 101st Infantry Division as a Brigadier-General in North Africa during World War II from 1941 to 1942. Azzi led the Italian army at the 1942 Battle of Gazala, a victory for the Axis, but in September 1943 he met Enver Hoxha in Albania after the armistice with the Allies, and he led his regiment as partisans against Nazi Germany and in June 1944 joined the Constitutional Assembly of Italy. He died in 1957.