Roberto Lucifero

Roberto Lucifero d'Aprigliano (16 December 1903 - 11 January 1993) was a lawyer who became an antifascist partisan. As the war ended he turned to politics and journalism.

In 1947/48 he briefly (and divisively) served as national secretary of the Italian Liberal Party.

He was born in Rome. His father, was from Crotone in the south and served between 1886 and 1919 as a member of parliament. After the Badoglio Proclamation of 8 September 1943, Roberto Lucifero d'Aprigliano participated in the against the city's occupation by German forces, as a member of an underground monarchist group. In April 1944 he was captured by German Nazi paramilitaries and imprisoned in the Regina Coeli, from where he was released on 4 June 1944 as allied forces liberated Rome from the German occupation.

A dew days later he participated in the formation of the short-lived Italian Democratic Party ("Partito Democratico Italiano " / PDI), created through the merger of the "Centro della Democrazia Italiana", the "Partito di unione" and the "Partito socialdemocratico". As a member of the PDI party executive, he took on responsibility for contributing to the daily news publication "monarchico Italia nuova", from the pages of which he attacked the antifascist measures of the Bonomi government and the "dictatorship" of the Committee for National Libneration ("Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale" / CLN). On 12 September 1944 he had a meeting with the Foreign Minister and CDU leader, De Gasperi, whom he urged to break the CLN coalition alliance with the Communists (something which in May 1947 De Gasperi would indeed do).

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