Alessandro Pirzio Biroli Athlete
Alessandro Pirzio Biroli (23 July 1877 – 20 May 1962) was an Italian fencer and army General. He won a silver medal in the team sabre event at the 1908 Summer Olympics. In 1918, Biroli became the commanding officer for the 8th Bersaglieri Regiment. Between 1921 and 1927, he headed a military mission to Ecuador. He was commanding general of the Monte Nero Division from 1932 to 1933, and of the Italian V Trieste Corps from 1933 to 1935. He commanded the Eritrean Corps in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, and subsequently was Governor of Amhara province in Italian East Africa from 1936 to 1937. Biroli was made General of the Italian 9th Army in 1941, and served as Governor of Montenegro from 1941 to 1943.
