Alfredo Covelli was an Italian politician, born in Bonito on February 22, 1914, leader of the Monarchist National Party.
He graduated in literature and philosophy, in law and political science in the second half of 1930s, and in 1940 he was a teacher of Latin and Greek in a grammar school of Benevento.
Took part in the Second World War as official of the Air Force, and after a series of operations in Tirana and Bari, he received a decoration for military valor.
Monarchist, in 1946 was elected Member of Parliament between the rows of the National Bloc of Freedom and in the referendum of 2 June he voted the House of Savoy.
In July the same year he founded the Monarchist National Party, with which he was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1948, and so would be until 1976. In the meantime he also devoted himself to journalism, becoming director of the Nation Courier.
In 1959 along with Achille Lauro, guide the baby Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity but its electoral defeats will quickly at the end of the movement and its merger with MSI.
In 1964 Covelli also held a management role in football, becoming advisor of the SS Lazio.
In the 1970s he went in the direction of the Italian Social Movement, which became the MSI-DN, which was also chairman.
In 1977 led to the split of National Democracy of which he was president, but two years later, with the disappearance of DN, he preferred to withdraw from the politics.
On January 15, 1998 was appointed by Victor Emmanuel of Savoy honorary president of the honorific Council of the Senators of the Kingdom.
At his request, was buried in Bonito, his birthplace, after he died on December 25, 1998.