Sandro Bondi
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Senator Sandro Bondi |
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| Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities | |
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In office May 8, 2008 – March 23, 2011 |
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| Prime Minister | Silvio Berlusconi |
| Preceded by | Francesco Rutelli |
| Succeeded by | Giancarlo Galan |
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| Born |
May 14, 1959 Fivizzano, Massa-Carrara, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Political party |
Italian Communist Party (until 1991) Forza Italia (1994-2009) The People of Freedom (2009-2013) Forza Italia (2013-2015) Liberal Popular Alliance (2015–2016) Independent (2016–present) |
| Alma mater | University of Pisa |
| Profession | Politician |
Sandro Bondi (born 14 May 1959) is an Italian politician. He was appointed on 8 May 2008 to be Culture Minister until March 23, 2011 in Silvio Berlusconi's fourth cabinet.
Bondi was born in Fivizzano, province of Massa-Carrara, Italy. He first attended school at Lausanne, where his emigrant father had settled. The family later returned to Italy and at a young age Sandro joined the Italian Communist Youth Federation, soon becoming its secretary in Lunigiana. He gained a laurea in philosophy from the University of Pisa with a dissertation on Leonardo Valazzana, precursor of the Augustinian order and opponent of Girolamo Savonarola.
A Catholic democrat, he campaigned for the Italian Communist Party, and was elected mayor of Fivizzano in 1990. In 1992 the town council led by him was overturned by the local Socialist Party, in association with Christian Democracy. Activists already playfully compared him to a ravanello (radish): that is, red on the outside but white on the inside. Following these events he left the PCI.
Subsequently getting to know Silvio Berlusconi via the sculptor Pietro Cascella, he became Berlusconi's secretary, collaborator and faithful advisor, so much so that - for Berlusconi's 2001 campaign - he was given the task of quickly coordinating the compilation of Una storia italiana (An Italian Story), a book of photographs on Berlusconi's public and private life, as electoral propaganda for future elections (as used by all Italian families).
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