Pietro Ingrao Explained

Pietro Ingrao
Order:President of the Chamber of Deputies
Term Start:5 July 1976
Term End:19 June 1979
Predecessor:Sandro Pertini
Successor:Nilde Iotti
Order2:Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Term Start2:27 September 1950
Term End2:22 April 1992
Constituency2:Rome (1950–1963; 1976–1983)
Perugia (1963–1972; 1983–1992)
Bologna (1972–1976)
Birth Date:30 March 1915
Birth Place:Lenola, Italy
Death Place:Rome, Italy
Nationality:Italian
Alma Mater:Sapienza University of Rome
Profession:Politician
Children:5 (Chiara, Renata, Bruna, Celeste, Guido)
Spouse:Laura Lombardo Radice
Party:PCI (until 1991)
PDS (1991–1993)
PRC (2005–2009)
SEL (2009–2015)

Pietro Ingrao (30 March 1915 – 27 September 2015) was an Italian politician and journalist who participated in the Italian resistance movement. For many years, he was a senior figure in the Italian Communist Party (PCI).[1] [2]

Biography

Ingrao was born at Lenola, Lazio, in the province of Latina. As a student, he was a member of GUF (Gruppo Universitario Fascista) and won a "Littoriale" of culture and art. Ingrao joined the PCI in 1940 and took part in the anti-fascist resistance during World War II. After the war, he led the Marxist–Leninist tendency in the party, representing its left wing. This led him to frequent political differences with Giorgio Amendola, leader of the social democratic tendency.

Ingrao was a member of the Italian Parliament continuously from 1950 to 1992. In 1947–1957, he was editor-in-chief of the party newspaper L'Unità. He was the first Communist to become president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, a position he held from 1976 to 1979. After PCI's then-secretary Achille Occhetto, in what was called the Svolta della Bolognina, decided to change the party's name, Ingrao become his main internal opponent.[3] In the PCI's 20th Congress of 1991, he joined the reformist majority in its successor, the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS), but soon left the group. After the 2004 European Parliament election in Italy, he abandoned the PDS and adhered as an independent to the more hardline successor to the old PCI, the Communist Refoundation Party.

Ingrao wrote a number of poems and political essays. His most important work is Appuntamenti di fine secolo ("Rendez-Vous at the End of the Century"), which was published in 1995 in collaboration with Rossana Rossanda. He was an atheist.[4] He married, who died in 2003.[5] Ingrao died on 27 September 2015, at the age of 100.[6] [2]

Electoral history

width=10%Electionwidth=20%Housewidth=40%Constituencywidth=5% colspan="2"Partywidth=9%Voteswidth=22%Result
1948Chamber of DeputiesRome–Viterbo–Latina–FrosinonePCI26,801 Not elected
1953Chamber of DeputiesRome–Viterbo–Latina–FrosinonePCI20,457 Elected
1958Chamber of DeputiesRome–Viterbo–Latina–FrosinonePCI33,820 Elected
1963Chamber of DeputiesPerugia–Terni–RietiPCI48,423 Elected
1968Chamber of DeputiesPerugia–Terni–RietiPCI42,441 Elected
1972Chamber of DeputiesBologna–Ferrara–Ravenna–ForlìPCI48,718 Elected
1976Chamber of DeputiesRome–Viterbo–Latina–FrosinonePCI62,623 Elected
1979Chamber of DeputiesRome–Viterbo–Latina–FrosinonePCI53,369 Elected
1983Chamber of DeputiesPerugia–Terni–RietiPCI57,148 Elected
1987Chamber of DeputiesPerugia–Terni–RietiPCI57,220 Elected

Sources

Notes and References

  1. News: Pietro Ingrao "I miei errori". Ajello. At. September 14, 2004. La Repubblica. Italian. 2 June 2012.
  2. News: Pietro Ingrao obituary. Donald Sassoon. the Guardian. 9 October 2015 .
  3. Book: Telese, Luca. Qualcuno era comunista. 2009. Sperling & Kupfer.
  4. Web site: Quinzio. Sergio. Ingrao convertito. anzi no. Il Corriere della Sera. 5 June 2013.
  5. News: Muore Laura Lombardo Radice, partigiana e moglie di Ingrao . 13 May 2020 . Il Messaggero . 23 March 2003 . it.
  6. http://www.repubblica.it/politica/2015/09/27/news/morto_pietro_ingrao-123799642/?ref=HREA-1 Addio a Pietro Ingrao, morto a Roma lo storico dirigente del Pci