Ada Natali

Ada Natali (born March 5, 1898 in Massa Fermana ; † April 27, 1990 ibid) was an Italian politician of the Communist Party of Italy and mayor of her birthplace. She was a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and from April 1946 to 1959 the first female mayor of the country alongside the Sardinian Ninetta Bartoli , who held the same office until 1958.

Life

Ada Natali was the daughter of the socialist mayor of Massa Fermana Giuseppe Natali and Argia Germani. In 1916 she passed an administrative diploma and worked as a municipal employee. She also enrolled in law at Macerata University .

In 1922, fascists murdered her father, the mother died a little later of heart failure and Ada was exiled to Roccafluvione . In 1936 she asked for permission to return to Macerata in order to continue her studies, but was instead taken to Loro Piceno , a place with no roads, and monitored by the police. From there she regularly walked to Passo Loro and took the bus to Macerata, where she completed her law studies with a laurea . At the same time she taught illiterate people in her place of exile.

Towards the end of the war she joined a partisan group that took part in the battles of Pian di Pieca and San Ginesio . She went back to Massa Fermana and lived there until the end of her life. In 1946 she was elected mayor as the first woman in Italy. In 1948 she became a deputy of the Popular Front from the Communist and Socialist Parties, the Partito Socialista Italiano . In this function she took part in a delegation trip to the Soviet Union and was involved in the 1953 election campaign in Sicily by Palmiro Togliatti .

Despite her commitment to the early women's movement and the communist party, as a Catholic, she kept in contact with the Santuario del SS. Crocifisso di Mogliano , to which she sent donations. She died in 1990 and was buried next to her parents.

Publications

• Relazione del sindaco dott. on. Ada Natali fatta all'Assemblea popolare convocata dalla Giunta municipale in data 9 dicembre 1949 . Comune di Massa Martana. Tip. Menicucci, Falerone 1950.

literature

• Oscar Gaspari: Ninetta Bartoli, sindaco di Borutta. Ada Natali, sindaco di Massa Fermana. Le prime donne sindaco in Italia , in: Oscar Gaspari, Rosario Forlenza, Sante Cruciani (eds.): Storie di sindaci per la storia d'Italia (1889–2000) , Donzelli, Rome 2009, pp. 106–108.

Web links

• Short biography with Donne e uomini della Resistenza , Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia
• Camera dei Deputati

Remarks

1. ↑ Federica Ginesu: Ninetta Bartoli la prima sindaca d'Italia ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , La donna sarda, November 6, 2014.