Giuseppe Ciarrapico – AKA "Peppino" – was an Italian entrepreneur, politician, and far right propagandist for Giorgio Almirante's Movimento Sociale Italiano (Italian Social Movement, MSI). Born in 1934, Ciarrapico was too young to have participated in Benito Mussolini's twenty-year dictatorship (1922-45), having been only eleven years old when the Duce was assassinated by Italian Partisans in northern Italy in April 1945. Nonetheless, Ciarrapico went on to be a vociferous supporter of the MSI during the Cold War years, serving as an industrial printer for the party's numerous manifestos and, later, as the administrative director of the MSI-owned daily, The Italian Century. Following a long career in both industry and far-right politics, Ciarrapico died on April 14, 2019 at the age of 85.
This poster – whose caption reads: "Lo chiamavano 'Peppino'" (They called him "Peppino") – served as a public announcement for Ciarrapico's funeral service in Rome's Piazza Tuscolo, halfway between the Colosseum and the notoriously neo-fascist Tuscolano neighborhood (2019). While no specific group took credit for the poster, it is signed by "I Camerati" (The Comrades), a common refrain among Italy's neo-fascist community. At the top of the poster is a slightly faded photograph of Almirante, alluding to Ciarrapico's professional connections with the MSI Secretary. The MSI's tricolor flame logo appears at the bottom, beneath Ciarrapico's photograph, identifying the latter with post-World War II Italy's neo-fascist patriarchs.
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