| Office: | Minister of Public Works |
| Primeminister: | Giovanni Goria |
| Predecessor: | Giuseppe Zamberletti |
| Successor: | Enrico Ferri |
| Term Start: | July 1987 |
| Term End: | March 1988 |
| Birth Date: | 1939 |
| Birth Place: | Marano Marchesato |
| Death Date: | July |
| Death Place: | Verona |
| Party: | PSI PSDI |
| Nationality: | Italian |
Emilio De Rose (1939–2018) was an Italian dermatologist and socialist politician who served as the minister of public works for one year in the period 1987–1988. He was a member of the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano; PSDI).
De Rose was born in Marano Marchesato, Cosenza, Calabria, on 27 March 1939.[1] [2] He worked in Verona as a physician.[2] He was a member of the Italian Socialist Party, but resigned from the party and joined the PSDI.[3] From 1975 to April 1978 he was the municipal councilor of Verona from the PSDI.[2]
He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the PSDI in 1983 and 1987.[4] He served as the minister of public works from July 1987 to March 1988 in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Giovanni Goria.[2] He was not re-elected to the Chamber in the following general election and returned to his profession as dermatologist.[4]
De Rose was a declared Freemason, being a member of a city lodge named after Franklin D. Roosevelt.[2] In April 1993 De Rosa was arrested in Verona due to accusations of abusing power whilst serving as a member of parliament and as a member of the executive of the PSDI.[4] He was jailed for fifteen days and later acquitted of all charges in November 2003.[5]
De Rose died in Verona in June 2018.[2] A funeral ceremony was held in Sant’Eufemia on 13 June.[2]