Pietro Nenni
| Pietro Nenni | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Deputy Prime Minister of Italy | |
|
In office December 4, 1963 – June 24, 1968 |
|
| Prime Minister | Aldo Moro |
| Preceded by | Attilio Piccioni |
| Succeeded by | Francesco De Martino |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
|
In office December 12, 1968 – August 5, 1969 |
|
| Prime Minister | Mariano Rumor |
| Preceded by | Giuseppe Medici |
| Succeeded by | Aldo Moro |
|
In office October 18, 1946 – February 2, 1947 |
|
| Prime Minister | Alcide De Gasperi |
| Preceded by | Alcide De Gasperi |
| Succeeded by | Carlo Sforza |
| Secretary of the Italian Socialist Party | |
|
In office May 16, 1949 – December 12, 1963 |
|
| Preceded by | Alberto Jacometti |
| Succeeded by | Francesco De Martino |
|
In office August 22, 1943 – August 1, 1945 |
|
| Preceded by | Giuseppe Romita |
| Succeeded by | Sandro Pertini |
|
In office April 18, 1933 – August 28, 1939 |
|
| Preceded by | Ugo Coccia |
| Succeeded by | Committee |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 9, 1891 Faenza, Emilia, Italy |
| Died | January 1, 1980 (aged 88) Rome, Italy |
| Political party |
Italian Republican Party (1909–1921) Italian Socialist Party (1921–1980) |
| Spouse(s) | Carmen Emiliani |
| Children | Giulia, Eva, Vittoria, Federico |
| Profession | Journalist |
Pietro Sandro Nenni (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpjɛtro ˈnɛnni]; February 9, 1891 – January 1, 1980) was an Italian socialist politician, the national secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and lifetime Senator since 1970. He was a recipient of the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951. He was a central figure of the Italian left from the 1920s to the 1960s.
He was born in Faenza, in Emilia-Romagna. After his peasant parents died, he was placed in an orphanage by an aristocratic family. Every Sunday, he recited his catechism before the countess and if he did well, he received a silver coin. "Generous but humiliating", he recalled.
He affiliated with the Italian Republican Party. In 1908, he became editor of a republican paper in Forlì. The socialist paper in the town was edited at the time by Benito Mussolini, later the Fascist dictator of Italy. Nenni was imprisoned in 1911 for his participation in the protest movement against the Italo-Turkish War in Libya with Mussolini.
When the First World War broke out, he advocated the intervention of Italy in the war. In 1915, he volunteered for the Isonzo front. After he was wounded and sent home, he became an editor of the republican paper Mattine d'Italia. He defended Italy's participation in the war but tried not to alienate his socialist friends. In the last years of the war Nenni served at the front again.
When the war was over, he founded, together with some disillusioned revolutionary ex-servicemen, a group called "Fascio", which was soon dissolved and replaced by a real Fascist body. While the socialist Mussolini became a fascist, the republican Nenni joined the Socialist Party in 1921 after its split with the wing that would form the Italian Communist Party (PCI).
...
Wikipedia