Fascist state was defeated in 1945. Membership The six presidents of the Academy were: Tommaso Tittoni, politician, 1929–1930 Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of radio telegraphy, 1930–1937 Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet and politician, 1937–1938 Luigi Federzoni, politician, 1938–1943 Giovanni Gentile, philosopher, 1943–1944 , geologist and geographer, from 1944. There were sixty members in all. An initial list of thirty names was compiled by Tittoni and Francesco Giunta, and was approved by the council of ministers on 13 March 1929. They were: , , Filippo Bottazzi, Armando Brasini, Pietro Canonica, Francesco Coppola, Giotto Dainelli Dolfi, Salvatore Di Giacomo, Enrico Fermi, Carlo Formichi, Umberto Giordano, , Antonio Mancini, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Pietro Mascagni, , Alfredo Panzini, , Marcello Piacentini, Luigi Pirandello, Pietro Romualdo Pirotta, , Romano Romanelli, Giulio Aristide Sartorio, Francesco Severi, Bonaldo Stringher, Alfredo Trombetti, , Gioacchino Volpe and Adolfo Wildt. Notes References . (in Italian), freely available from the Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali - Dipartimento per i Beni Archivistici e Librari - Direzione Generale per gli Archivi (a branch of the Italian Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali). The complete inventory of the Reale Accademia d'Italia, which incorporated the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei between 1939 and 1944. This article contains material translated from its equivalent in Italian Wikipedia, accessed 5/20/2011 Italy Italy Italian Fascism Italy 1926 establishments in Italy 1943 disestablishments in Italy Scientific organizations established in 1926 Organizations disestablished in 1943 Learned societies of Italy