Giovanni Conti

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Giovanni Conti

Giovanni Conti (born November 17, 1882 in Montegranaro , † March 1, 1957 in Rome ) was an Italian lawyer, publicist and politician ( Partito Repubblicano Italiano ).

biography

Giovanni Conti joined the Republican Party of Italy in 1898 , which had been founded three years earlier. In 1910 he was elected to the Executive Commission at the 10th Congress of the Party in Florence .

Two years later he moved to Rome and joined the party leadership. From 1916 he took part in the First World War. In 1921 he founded the party newspaper La Voce Repubblicana and the newspaper of the youth federation L'Alba Repubblicana . In the same year he was elected to parliament and confirmed in office in 1924.

After the consolidation of fascism, he stayed in Rome. As a prominent anti-fascist, he was the target of violent attacks; his law firm was vandalized, he himself was monitored from 1926 to 1943 and imprisoned several times. In the run-up to Hitler's state visit to Italy in May 1938, anti-fascists were arrested preventively, including Conti. The political police, reporting to the Italian Ministry of the Interior, kept files on him.

After the fall of Mussolini and the end of the German occupation of Rome, Giovanni Conti began reorganizing the Republican Party in Rome in 1943/44, but soon came into conflict with Randolfo Pacciardi .

Conti was appointed senator in 1948 and retired from politics in 1950.

Founder and publisher of the following newspapers and magazines (selection)

  • La Ragione (1907–1910), daily newspaper
  • L'Attesa (1910), only a few issues
  • L'Educatore (ca.1910), for a young audience
  • L'Iniziativa (1912–1920), weekly newspaper
  • La Voce Repubblicana (1921–1926), continued after the war
  • L'Alba Repubblicana (1921–1926), weekly newspaper of the Young Republicans
  • La Vigilia (1924)

Publications (selection)

  • Il Partito Repubblicano nell'attuale momento politico , Roma 1921
  • Pensiero e azione. Cento anni di lotta repubblicana in Italia , Roma 1917 (2nd edition 1921)
  • Il Partito repubblicano dalle lotte per l'unità d'Italia al momento attuale , Roma 1944 and 1947
  • Controcorrente e copialettere , Roma sd (after 1945)

Web links

literature

  • Marina Tesoro, I Repubblicani nell'età giolittiana , Firenze 1978 (Le Monnier)
  • Alessandro Spinelli, I repubblicani nel secondo dopoguerra (1943-1953) , Ravenna 1998 (Longo)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Ministero dell'Interno, Casellario Politico Centrale (CPC), busta 1453, Conti Giovanni. ( http://www.acs.beniculturali.it/ )
  2. ↑ Alessandro Spinelli. I repubblicani nel secondo dopoguerra (1943-1953) , Ravenna 1998 (Longo)
  3. ↑ His estate is deposited in the State Archives in Ancona. http://www.archiviodistatoancona.beniculturali.it/
personal data
SURNAME Conti, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian lawyer, publicist and politician (Partito Repubblicano Italiano), member of the Camera dei deputati
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Montegranaro
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1957
Place of death Rome