under mussolini's government, alfieri was assigned several tasks: between 1929 and 1934, he was co-director of the exhibition of the fascist revolution, deputy secretary of the "corporazioni", and deputy secretary for press and propaganda from 1935, assuming the duties of minister galeazzo ciano during the latter's mission in the second italo-abyssinian war. when ciano moved on to become minister of foreign affairs, dino alfieri found himself appointed minister of people's culture in 1937, and declared himself to the antisemitical racial segregation laws passed in 1938.