Giobatta Gianquinto

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Giovanni Battista Gianquinto

Giobatta Gianquinto , with full name Giovanni Battista Gianquinto (born February 28, 1905 in Trapani , † April 21, 1987 in Venice ), was a lawyer at the Venetian Court of Justice, resistance fighter , member of the Communist Party of Italy and from March 1946 to May 1951 mayor of Venice . He was succeeded by the doctor Angelo Spanio ; after 1951 the office was led by Christian Democrats until 1975.

Life

Venice became Gianquinto's adopted home at a young age. First he became a supporter of the Partito Repubblicano Italiano . He studied law in Padua until 1924 , went to Venice, became an attorney for criminal law and was one of the prominent figures at the Venetian court of justice. He joined the anti-fascist Giovine Italia , was arrested in 1928 and sentenced to five or six years in prison.

In 1932 he met Mauro Scoccimarro in prison and joined the Partito Comunista Italiano , of which he remained a member. He was released through an amnesty , but was arrested again in 1936. In November 1943 he was arrested again. He fought as a partisan against the fascists and worked in the leadership groups of the Resistancea .

In 1945 he was appointed by the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale as Vice Mayor under Giovanni Ponti . In the elections of March 1946 he was successful as a joint candidate for communists and socialists and remained mayor until 1951. He complained that "hundreds of families lead lives that are closer to the life of an animal than that of humans," and he referred to the crumbling houses as "spelonche" and "mouse holes". At the same time, the leaders of the fascists lived on as if nothing had happened. Giuseppe Volpi († November 16, 1947), Vittorio Cini († 1977, he even became the first procurator of San Marco in 1955) and Giurati († 1970, he remained a fascist) were arrested but soon released. There were only a few executions.

As consigliere comunale he advised the city from 1946 to 1986. From 1953 he was a member of the PCI and was elected senator in 1958, 1963 and again in 1968, which meant that he sat in the Senate for 15 years. In 1975 he was elected assessore agli affari Istituzionali .

Gianquinto loved Venice so much that when he was over seventy, he flew over the city in a small plane every Sunday.

Remarks

  1. ↑ This and the following according to Giulia Albanese, Marco Borghi: Nella Resistenza. Vecchi e giovani a Venezia sessant'anni dopo , Portogruaro 2004, p. 96.
  2. ^ Renzo Biondo, Marco Borghi: Giustizia e libertà e Partito d'azione. A Venezia e dintorni , Portogruaro 2005, p. 26.
  3. ^ RJB Bosworth : Italian Venice. A History , Yale University Press, 2014, p. 179 f.
  4. ^ Sandro Meccoli: La battaglia per Venezia , 1977, p. 254.
personal data
SURNAME Gianquinto, Giobatta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gianquinto, Giovanni Battista (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian resistance fighter, Mayor of Venice
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Trapani
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1987
Place of death Venice