Briganti's career began as an
ensign in the air service of the
Regia Marina in 1916, serving in the
seaplane bases of
Venice,
Ancona and Porto Corsini; in this capacity he carried out several
bombing missions with
Macchi M.3 and
FBA seaplanes and was awarded two
Bronze Medals of Military Valour. In the autumn of 1917 he was assigned to the 252nd Seaplane Squadron, based in the island of
Sant'Andrea (Venice) and on 16 November he was transferred to the 253rd Squadron. On 1 June 1918
Sub-Lieutenant Briganti was assigned to the 264th Squadron of Ancona, equipped with FBA flying boats. On June 3, two Austro-Hungarian seamen of Italian origin decided to desert and stole a
Lohner L seaplane, which they flew across the
Adriatic Sea, landing near
Fano, where they were captured; Briganti, along with lieutenant
Aldo Pellegrini, was sent from Ancona with the task of recovering the aircraft. After the end of the war, Briganti joined the forces of poet
Gabriele D'Annunzio during their
occupation of Fiume, as a seaplane pilot, from February 4 to September 12, 1920. After returning to service within the Navy, he served as
lieutenant on the battleship
Vittorio Emanuele, during the early stages of the
pacification of Libya. In 1923, with the establishment of the
Regia Aeronautica, he was among the officers who chose to leave the Navy to join the new armed force, with the rank of
captain. After the war the new Chief of Staff of the
Italian Air Force, General
Mario Ajmone Cat, appointed Briganti adjunct Chief of Staff of the Air Force, a post he held from 3 August 1946 to 1 January 1947, after which he was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff of the Air Force and from November 1947 Secretary General of the Air Force. In 1949 he became president of the High Council of the Air Force, and in early 1952 he was appointed president of the High Council of the Armed Forces. He retired from the Air Force in February 1952, after which he was general director of Civil Aviation and Air Traffic for a year. Briganti published his memoirs,
Oltre le nubi il sereno, in the 1980s, and died in Rome on July 2, 1997, at age 100. ==References==