Luigi Bongiovanni

Luigi Bongiovanni
Italian Governor of Cyrenaica
In office
December 1922  24 May 1924
Preceded by Eduardo Baccari
Succeeded by Ernesto Mombelli
Personal details
Born 8 December 1866
Reggio Emilia
Died April 4, 1941(1941-04-04) (aged 74)
Rome

Luigi Bongiovanni (1866–1941) was an Italian general. He had been a governor of Cyrenaica from December 1922 to May 1924.

During the battle of Caporetto in World War I, he commaded VII corps of the Italian 2nd Army. Before that he participated in Boxer rebellion, then in the Italo-Turkish War.

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