Carlo Petitti di Roreto (1862-1933) was an Italian general who was most notable during his service in the Italo-Turkish War and World War I.
Biography Carlo Petitti di Roreto was the son of a noble Piedmontese family, his grandfather was Carlo Ilarione Petitti di Roreto, an economist and writer and he was the nephew of Senator Agostino Petitti Bagliani di Roreto.
After embarking on a military career at the end of the nineteenth century, he participated in the clashes of the First World War, where from 4 June to 29 October 1915, he obtained command of the 1st Infantry Division as a general. In 1916 he obtained command of the 35th Division, taking possession of it at 3.30 pm on 15 May that year near Malga Zolle, on the southern side of Monte Toraro, precisely on the occasion of the start of the Austrian offensive on the highlands. He was in command of the Italian expeditionary force in Macedonia from August 1916 to June 1917.
From 1918, he was promoted to general of the army corps, he obtained the command of the XXIII Corps with specifically divisions 28 and 61, which during the Second Battle of the Piave River operated on the right bank of the Piave from Croce di Piave to the sea. On 2 November 1918 he became governor of Trieste and Venezia Giulia, keeping the post until July 1919.
At the end of the First World War, he obtained the appointment as general commander of the Carabinieri on 25 August 1919, remaining in office until 29 October 1921 .
In December 1919 he was appointed Senator of the Kingdom of Italy.
In politics an active exponent of the traditional liberal currents, he was a personality with a gruff trait, even haughty in the opinion of foreign observers (often prejudicedly hostile, or prejudiced, for their own interests) not accustomed to the "Piedmontese" character, but considered a good administrator and a skilled mediator, as proved in Macedonia and Venezia Giulia.Raoul Pupo: Victory without peace , Editori Laterza, 2014
Edoardo Schott, war correspondent in Thessaloniki called him "a haughty Italian of high Piedmontese nobility".Entrepreneur, journalist but above all political activist. Coming from a family of Jewish origins from Romania, he was in those years the main leader of the Giuliana "Dsi" (Social Democracy Irredent) of the Mazzinian area, in particular of the party's "left" current. Raoul Pupo: Victory without peace, Editori Laterza, 2014.
He died in Turin in 1933.
Awards Military Order of Savoy, Knight
Military Order of Savoy, Commander
Military Order of Savoy, Grand Order
Medal of Military Valor
Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, Commander (30 December 1919) Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, Knight Order of the Crown of Italy, Grand Gross War Merit Cross Commemorative Medal for the Italo-Turkish War 1911-1912 Commemorative Medal for the Italo-Austrian War 1915–1918 Commemorative Medal of the Unity of Italy Allied Victory Medal
Foreign awards : Legion of Honour : Croix de guerre 1914–1918 : Order of the White Eagle
References
Bibliography Carlo Petitti di Roreto, on Sapienza.it De Agostini Carlo Petitti di Roreto , on Senators of Italy Senate of the Republic