Otone Gabelli
Ottone Gabelli was an Italian diplomat who was a governor of Italian Eritrea in 1935. He also wrote some books about the Italian colonies.

Biography
Ottone Gabelli was born in Friuli in 1880, near Udine (Italy). He graduated as attorney in 1905.

He began a bureaucratic career in the "Ministry of the colonies", becoming director general in the early 1930s. He was also a member of the "Italian Institute for the Middle and Far East" (Istituto per l'Oriente), a journal on colonial studies.

Ottone Gabelli moved to Italian Africa in 1934, first as "Cirenaica Segretary" and later temporarily becoming vice-governor of Eritrea from 1928 until 1935. Then, in the same year for a few days he was named "Governor of Eritrea".

His role as "governor regent" was Officer of role in colonies (attribution: "Regent") in January 1935.

He was among the signatories of the Manifesto della Razza in 1938. Ottone Gabelli died in 1939 in Italy.

Published books
 LA TRIPOLITANIA DALLA FINE DELLA GUERRA MONDIALE ALL'AVVENTO DEL FASCISMO - 2 VOLUMI. Editore: A. AIROLDI. Verona, 1939 
 Le vicende della colonizzazione italiana in Eritrea e Somalia in "L'Africa orientale italiana e il conflitto italo-etiopico"; p. 113-126. Roma, 1936

Notes

Bibliography

 
 Vanni Beltrami (2011). "Italia d'oltremare. Storie dei territori italiani dalla conquista alla caduta". Rome: Edizioni Nuova Cultura. ISBN 9788861347021.

See also
 Italian Eritrea
 list of colonial governors of Eritrea

Italian Eritrea
Italian Governors of Eritrea
1880 births
1939 deaths