Giancarlo Pittelli is an Italian criminal and former lawyer and politician. Pittelli had served as a Deputy and Senator, [1] and was convicted in November 2023 for collusion with a criminal organisation. [2] [3] [4]
Roberto Formigoni is an Italian politician. He was the president of Lombardy from 1995 to 2013. He is the former unofficial political spokesperson of the Communion and Liberation movement. On 21 February 2019, the Supreme Court of Cassation, the highest court in Italy, found him guilty of corruption and sentenced him to a definitive jail term of 5 years and 10 months. As a result, he has been detained in the prison of Bollate, near Milan, Italy, since February 2019.
Vittorio Valletta was an Italian industrialist and president of Fiat S.p.A. from 1946 to 1966.
Ciro Cirillo was an Italian politician and member of the Christian Democracy (DC) political party. He served as the president of the province of Naples from 1969 to 1975 and the president of Campania from 1979 until 1980. Cirillo oversaw reconstruction efforts in the aftermath of the 1980 Irpinia earthquake, which struck the region on 23 November 1980.
On April 27, 1981, the Red Brigades (BR) kidnapped the 60-year-old Christian Democrat (DC) politician Ciro Cirillo and killed his two-man escort in the garage of his Naples apartment building. At the time, Cirillo directed reconstruction efforts in Campania devastated by the earthquake in the Irpinia region on November 23, 1980. He was released after a controversial deal with the Camorra; they did not negotiate with the BR and only asked them to release him. This happened several years after the Italian state had refused to negotiate with the BR in their kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, leading observers and critics to wonder what changed and the reasons behind the state's negotiation. Cirillo died in 2017.
Cantiere Popolare is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy, based in Sicily.
The Liberal Popular Alliance, whose full name was Liberal Popular Alliance – Autonomies, was a centrist and liberal political party in Italy. ALA members were known as Verdiniani, from the name of their leader Denis Verdini, who was formerly a long-time member and national coordinator of three successive centre-right parties led by Silvio Berlusconi until July 2015, when he broke with Berlusconi in order to support the government led by Matteo Renzi, leader of the centre-left Democratic Party.
Vincenzo Carollo was an Italian politician from Palermo and member of the Christian Democratic Party (DC).
More Europe is a liberal and pro-European political party in Italy, part of the centre-left coalition and member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party.
The White Uno Gang was an Italian criminal organization operating mainly in Emilia-Romagna and Marche.
The Graviano family is a Sicilian Mafia clan, composed of four mafioso siblings: Benedetto, Filippo, Giuseppe and Nunzia. Their father was Michele Graviano, uomo d'onore that belonged to the Brancaccio Mafia family and was murdered by Gaetano Grado in 1982.
Events during the year 2019 in Italy.
Action is a liberal political party in Italy. Its leader is Carlo Calenda, a member of the European Parliament within the group of Renew Europe and former minister of Economic Development.
Italia Viva is a liberal political party in Italy founded in September 2019. The party is led by Matteo Renzi, a former Prime Minister of Italy and former secretary of the Democratic Party (PD). As of 2021, Italia Viva is a member of the European Democratic Party.
Domani is an Italian newspaper published in Rome, Italy. The newspaper was launched by Carlo De Benedetti, former publisher of La Repubblica, in the spring of 2020, after the latter had been sold by his sons to the Agnelli family and, in his view, had started to betray its legacy as Italy's leading progressive newspaper.
Events during the year 2021 in Italy.
Bartolomeo Pepe was an Italian politician.
Events during the year 2023 in Italy.
Cosimo Izzo was an Italian lawyer and politician. A member of Forza Italia and The People of Freedom, he served in the Senate of the Republic from 2001 to 2013.
Lorenzo Malagrida is an Italian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Serie C Group B club Rimini on loan from Serie B club Sampdoria.
Events during the year 2024 in Italy.