Giacomo Matteotti was an Italian socialist politician. On 30 May 1924,he openly spoke in the Italian Parliament alleging the Italian fascists committed fraud in the 1924 Italian general election,and denounced the violence they used to gain votes. Eleven days later,he was kidnapped and killed by Fascists.
Adone Alvaro Ugo Natale Camillo Zoli was an Italian politician who served as the 35th prime minister of Italy from May 1957 to July 1958;he was the first senator to have ever held the office.
Fernando Tambroni Armaroli was an Italian politician,member of the Christian Democracy,who served as 36th Prime Minister of Italy from March to July 1960. He also served as Minister of the Interior from July 1955 until February 1959,Minister of Budget and Treasury from February 1959 to March 1960 and Minister of the Merchant Navy from August 1953 until July 1955.
The Italian resistance movement is an umbrella term for the Italian resistance groups who fought the occupying forces of Nazi Germany and the fascist collaborationists of the Italian Social Republic during the Second World War in Italy from 1943 to 1945. As a diverse anti-fascist movement and organisation,the Resistenza opposed Nazi Germany,as well as Nazi Germany's Italian puppet state regime,the Italian Social Republic,which the Germans created following the Nazi German invasion and military occupation of Italy by the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS from 8 September 1943 until 25 April 1945.
Ivanoe Bonomi was an Italian politician and journalist who served as Prime Minister of Italy from 1921 to 1922 and again from 1944 to 1945.
Ferruccio Parri was an Italian partisan and anti-fascist politician who served as the 29th Prime Minister of Italy,and the first to be appointed after the end of World War II. During the war he was also known by his nom de guerreMaurizio.
Giuseppe Bottai was an Italian journalist and member of the National Fascist Party of Benito Mussolini.
The Aventine Secession was the withdrawal of the parliament opposition,mainly comprising the Italian Socialist Party,Italian Liberal Party,Italian People's Party and Italian Communist Party,from the Chamber of Deputies in 1924–25,following the murder of the deputy Giacomo Matteotti by fascists on 10 June 1924.
Giorgio Amendola was an Italian writer and politician. He is regarded and often cited as one of the main precursors of the Olive Tree. Born in Rome in 1907,Amendola was the son of Lithuanian intellectual Eva Kühn and Giovanni Amendola,a liberal anti-fascist who died in 1926 in Cannes after having been attacked by killers hired by Benito Mussolini. He secretly joined the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1929. After graduating in law,he started to propagandize opposition to the Mussolini regime.
Antonio Giolitti was an Italian politician and cabinet member. He was the grandson of Giovanni Giolitti,the well-known liberal statesman of the pre-fascist period who served as Prime Minister of Italy five times.
The Italian Civil War was a civil war in the Kingdom of Italy fought during World War II between Italian fascists and Italian partisans and,to a lesser extent,the Italian Co-belligerent Army.
Randolfo Pacciardi was an Italian politician.
Giuseppe De Felice Giuffrida was an Italian socialist politician and journalist from Sicily. He is considered to be one of the founders of the Fasci Siciliani a popular movement of democratic and socialist inspiration. As the first socialist mayor of Catania in Sicily,from 1902 until 1914,he became the protagonist of a kind of municipal socialism.
Riccardo Lombardi was an Italian politician.
Liberation Day,also known as the Anniversary of Italy's Liberation,Anniversary of the Resistance,or simply 25 April,is a national holiday in Italy that commemorates the victory of the Italian resistance movement against Nazi Germany and the Italian Social Republic,puppet state of the Nazis and rump state of the fascists,during the liberation of Italy and the Italian Civil War during World War II. That is distinct from Republic Day,which takes place on 2 June and commemorates the 1946 Italian institutional referendum.
Mario Alicata was an Italian Partisan,literary critic and politician.
Arrigo Boldrini was an Italian politician and partisan,one of the most prominent figures of the Italian resistance movement,president of National Association of Italian Partisans for almost 60 years.
Pietro Amendola was a communist Italian politician and journalist,who served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1948 until 1968. A war hero,and anti-fascist partisan,his father was Giovanni Amendola,a noted anti-fascist in the 1920s,and his brother,Giorgio,was also a communist politician.
Vincenzo Moscatelli,better known as Cino Moscatelli was an Italian Resistance leader during World War II. After the war he became a politician in the Italian Communist Party,serving in the Italian Constituent Assembly,the Italian Senate and the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
Tosca Bucarelli Martini was an Italian Partisan and politician from Florence. During the Italian Civil War,she joined the Gruppi di Azione Patriottica (GAP),a Communist Partisan organization resisting Mussolini's Fascist Italian Social Republic. She later served as City Councillor for Florence from 1975 to 1980.
