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</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">20 July 1876<br /><a href="/wiki/Genoa" title="Genoa">Genoa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Italy" title="Kingdom of Italy">Italy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">2 November 1966 (aged 90)<br /><a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nickname</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Mingo</i></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Military service</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" 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class="infobox-label">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Admiral" title="Admiral">Ammiraglio d'Armata</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Commands</th><td class="infobox-data">Chief of Staff, <a href="/wiki/Regia_Marina" title="Regia Marina">Regia Marina</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Battles/wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a><br /><a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cavagnariemussolini.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Cavagnariemussolini.jpg" decoding="async" width="202" height="256" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="202" data-file-height="256" /></a><figcaption>Cavagnari with <a href="/wiki/Benito_Mussolini" title="Benito Mussolini">Benito Mussolini</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b>Domenico Cavagnari</b> (20 July 1876, <a href="/wiki/Genoa" title="Genoa">Genoa</a> – 2 November 1966, <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>) was an Italian admiral and the Chief of Staff of the <a href="/wiki/Regia_Marina" title="Regia Marina">Regia Marina</a> from 1933 until 1940. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Domenico_Cavagnari&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born to a <a href="/wiki/Pharmacist" title="Pharmacist">pharmacist</a>, he enrolled in the <a href="/wiki/Accademia_Navale_di_Livorno" class="mw-redirect" title="Accademia Navale di Livorno">Accademia Navale di Livorno</a> in 1889, at an unusually young age of 13; he graduated from it in 1895. He participated in a Far East cruise on the <a href="/wiki/Armored_cruiser" title="Armored cruiser">armored cruiser</a> <a href="/wiki/Italian_cruiser_Vettor_Pisani" title="Italian cruiser Vettor Pisani"><i>Vettor Pisani</i></a> from April to December 1903, after which he was named adjutant to the Minister of the Navy <a href="/wiki/Carlo_Mirabello" title="Carlo Mirabello">Carlo Mirabello</a>. In 1914 he was promoted <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_commander" title="Lieutenant commander">Capitano di Corvetta</a>. During <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, he commanded the coastal torpedo-boat <i>9 PN</i>, and then the 6th Torpedo-Boat Flotilla; in 1917 he was under the command of Admiral <a href="/wiki/Paolo_Thaon_di_Revel" title="Paolo Thaon di Revel">Paolo Thaon di Revel</a>, then commanding the naval station of <a href="/wiki/Venice" title="Venice">Venice</a>, until April 1918, when he was given command of the destroyer <i>Felice Orsini</i>. During the war he was promoted <a href="/wiki/Commander" title="Commander">Capitano di Fregata</a> and gained three <a href="/wiki/Silver_Medal_of_Military_Valor" title="Silver Medal of Military Valor">Silver Medals of Military Valor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the war, Cavagnari was promoted <a href="/wiki/Capitano_di_vascello" class="mw-redirect" title="Capitano di vascello">Capitano di Vascello</a> in 1922 and given command of the "<a href="/wiki/Esploratore" title="Esploratore">esploratore</a>" <a href="/wiki/Italian_destroyer_Pantera" title="Italian destroyer Pantera"><i>Pantera</i></a> and its flotilla, which he led in a goodwill cruise to the <a href="/wiki/North_Sea" title="North Sea">North Sea</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Baltic_Sea" title="Baltic Sea">Baltic Sea</a> in 1925. Promoted <a href="/wiki/Contrammiraglio" class="mw-redirect" title="Contrammiraglio">Contrammiraglio</a> in 1927, he was named commander of the Accademia Navale in 1929, and remained as such till 1932; afterwards, he commanded the <i>2a Divisione</i> (with the heavy cruiser <a href="/wiki/Italian_cruiser_Trento" title="Italian cruiser Trento"><i>Trento</i></a> as his flagship.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Chief_of_Staff">Chief of Staff</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Domenico_Cavagnari&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Chief of Staff"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 7 November 1933 <a href="/wiki/Benito_Mussolini" title="Benito Mussolini">Benito Mussolini</a> fired the Minister of the Navy, Admiral <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Sirianni" title="Giuseppe Sirianni">Giuseppe Sirianni</a>, took up the role of Minister himself and named Cavagnari Chief of Staff of the Regia Marina. </p><p>As Chief of Staff, he was largely responsible for the expansion and preparation of the Italian Navy in the years before <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. Cavagnari was a proponent of a large fleet based on battleships (in his tenure, four new <a href="/wiki/Littorio-class_battleship" title="Littorio-class battleship"><i>Littorio</i>-class</a> battleships were laid down and four older battleships were modernized) and submarines (by 1940, Italy possessed one of the largest submarine fleets of the world); he instead showed little interest in aircraft carriers and new technologies such as <a href="/wiki/Radar" title="Radar">radar</a>. </p><p>After Italy joined the war on 10 June 1940, the Italian Navy's unpreparedness (highlighted in the indecisive engagement of <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Calabria" title="Battle of Calabria">Punta Stilo</a> and on the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Taranto" title="Battle of Taranto">Battle of Taranto</a>, in which three battleships were heavily damaged by British torpedo-bombers) led to his dismissal. He was succeeded by Admiral <a href="/wiki/Arturo_Riccardi" title="Arturo Riccardi">Arturo Riccardi</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours_and_awards">Honours and awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Domenico_Cavagnari&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Honours and awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Grande_ufficiale_OCI_Kingdom_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Grande_ufficiale_OCI_Kingdom_BAR.svg/106px-Grande_ufficiale_OCI_Kingdom_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="106" height="29" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Grande_ufficiale_OCI_Kingdom_BAR.svg/159px-Grande_ufficiale_OCI_Kingdom_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, 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href="/wiki/Order_of_Saints_Maurice_and_Lazarus" title="Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus">Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus</a> (19 June 1924)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Commendatore_SSML_Regno_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Commendatore_SSML_Regno_BAR.svg/106px-Commendatore_SSML_Regno_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="106" height="29" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Commendatore_SSML_Regno_BAR.svg/159px-Commendatore_SSML_Regno_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Commendatore_SSML_Regno_BAR.svg/212px-Commendatore_SSML_Regno_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> Commander of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (20 July 1925)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Grande_ufficiale_SSML_Regno_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Grande_ufficiale_SSML_Regno_BAR.svg/106px-Grande_ufficiale_SSML_Regno_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="106" height="29" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Grande_ufficiale_SSML_Regno_BAR.svg/159px-Grande_ufficiale_SSML_Regno_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Grande_ufficiale_SSML_Regno_BAR.svg/212px-Grande_ufficiale_SSML_Regno_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> Grand Officer of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (31 December 1934)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cavaliere_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Cavaliere_BAR.svg/106px-Cavaliere_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="106" height="29" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Cavaliere_BAR.svg/159px-Cavaliere_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Cavaliere_BAR.svg/212px-Cavaliere_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> Knight of the <a href="/wiki/Military_Order_of_Savoy" title="Military Order of Savoy">Military Order of Savoy</a> (24 July 1919)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Grande_ufficiale_OMS_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Grande_ufficiale_OMS_BAR.svg/106px-Grande_ufficiale_OMS_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="106" height="29" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Grande_ufficiale_OMS_BAR.svg/159px-Grande_ufficiale_OMS_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Grande_ufficiale_OMS_BAR.svg/212px-Grande_ufficiale_OMS_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> Grand Officer of the Military Order of Savoy (31 July 1939)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Valor_militare_silver_medal_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Valor_militare_silver_medal_BAR.svg/106px-Valor_militare_silver_medal_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="106" height="29" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Valor_militare_silver_medal_BAR.svg/159px-Valor_militare_silver_medal_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Valor_militare_silver_medal_BAR.svg/212px-Valor_militare_silver_medal_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Silver_Medal_of_Military_Valor" title="Silver Medal of Military Valor">Silver Medal of Military Valor</a> (three awards)</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:World_War_I_Victory_Medal_ribbon.svg" 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Commemorative_Italian-Austrian_war_medal_BAR.svg/159px-Commemorative_Italian-Austrian_war_medal_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Commemorative_Italian-Austrian_war_medal_BAR.svg/212px-Commemorative_Italian-Austrian_war_medal_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Commemorative_Medal_for_the_Italo-Austrian_War_1915-1918" class="mw-redirect" title="Commemorative Medal for the Italo-Austrian War 1915-1918">Commemorative Medal for the Italo-Austrian War 1915-1918</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:ItaloTurca.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/ItaloTurca.png/106px-ItaloTurca.png" decoding="async" width="106" height="29" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/ItaloTurca.png/159px-ItaloTurca.png 1.5x, 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