Leone Cattani
| Leone Cattani | |
|---|---|
| Secretary General of the Italian Liberal Party | |
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In office December 1944 – December 1945 |
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| Preceded by | Manlio Brosio |
| Succeeded by | |
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In office 10 December 1945 – 1 July 1946 |
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| Preceded by | Giuseppe Romita |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
5 January 1906 Rieti, Lazio, Italy |
| Died | 29 October 1980 Rome, Italy |
| Political party |
PLI PR |
| Spouse(s) | Maria Ruffini (m. 1940) |
| Children | Umberto (1941 - 1969) Paolo (1943) Giorgio (1945) |
| Parents | Antonio Cattani (1873-1939) Maria Costantini |
| Occupation |
Lawyer Politician |
Leone Cattani (5 January 1906 - 29 October 1980) was an Italian lawyer, politician and anti-Fascist activist.
Between December 1944 and December 1945 he served as secretary general of the Italian Liberal Party. Later, in 1955, he was a co-founder of the Italian Radical Party.
Leone Cattani was born in Rieti, a small industrial city and regional capital a short distance to the north of Rome. He was the youngest of the four recorded children of Antonio Cattani (1873-1939), a primary school teacher (later a director of studies), originally from nearby Antrodoco. His mother, born Maria Costantini, came from a Rieti family. For work reasons, while he was growing up, the family relocated to Urbino, later moving further afield to Crema in the north-west of Italy (Lombardy).
The move to Crema meant living close to Milan, which is where Cattani undertook his university studies, receiving a degree in social sciences in 1925 and in jurisprudence in 1927. It was while he was a student that he became politically involved, joining Catholic associations. Cattani was influenced by the liberal ideas of Benedetto Croce and Luigi Einaudi. He became an activist and then a leading figure in the Catholic Federation of University Students ("Federazione Universitaria Cattolica Italiana" / FUCI), expressing hostility within the federation to the Fascists who had been running the government since 1922. He was also a promoter of the "Golliardic Union for Liberty" ("Unione goliardica per la libertà"), an association of socialist and liberal Catholics which had been founded in 1924.
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