Mario Alicata

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Mario Alicata (1953)

Mario Alicata (born May 9, 1918 in Reggio Calabria , † December 6, 1966 in Rome ) was an Italian politician ( KPI ), author, publicist and literary and film critic.

Life

Alicata moved to Palermo with his parents in 1925, and finally to Rome in 1933. There he attended the liceo Tasso . In 1936 he enrolled at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Rome . In 1940 he completed his studies there. In the same year Alicata had already joined the banned KPI. From 1940 to 1942 he was involved in the illegal Communist Party organization in Rome until he was arrested in December 1942. Alicata was not released until August 1943. From 1943 to 1945 he took an active part in the Resistenza . In 1943/44 he was editor-in-chief of the central organ of the banned KPI, the newspaper L'Unità (Eng. "The Unit"). Then in 1945 Alicata took over the editing of the party newspaper La Voce (Eng. "The Voice") in Naples .

At the 5th party congress of the KPI in 1945 Alicata was a candidate for the Central Committee, at the VI. Party congress elected a member of the Central Committee. He was also a member of the southern commission of his party, as well as a member of the KPI leadership in Naples. There he was also elected to the city council in 1946. He developed a great deal of political activity for the Mezzogiorno in the early post-war period . 1948 in the constituency Naples to deputies elected Alicata was in the same year for KPI secretary for the region Calabria appointed. From 1948 he headed the KPI weekly La Voce del Mezzogiorno (Eng. "The Voice of Mezzogiorno") together with Giovanni Amendola . He was also a member of the secretariat of the Comitato nazionale per la Rinascita del Mezzogiorno (Eng. "National Committee for the Rebirth of the Mezzogiorno"). In 1953 he was elected mayor of Melissa Municipality in Calabria. Between 1954 and 1956 he was editor-in-chief of the Cronache meridionali (Eng. "Chronicles of the South"). From 1955 to 1963 he headed the culture commission of the KPI. At the 8th Party Congress in December 1956 he was elected to the national leadership of the KPI. In March 1962 he was again editor-in-chief of the newspaper L'Unità . In 1963 Alicata was re-elected to the Camera , this time for the constituency of Siena . Member of the KPI Secretariat since 1964, he was elected to the Politburo in 1966.

As an author and publicist, Alicata devoted himself to the labor movement and the Italian southern question. As a literary and film critic, he was mainly concerned with problems of realism in modern Italian literature and neorealism in Italian cinema.

Works (selection)

  • La Riforma della scuola . Editori Riuniti, Rome 1956.
  • La lezione di Agrigento . Editori Riuniti, Rome 1966.
  • La battaglia delle idee . Editori Riuniti, Rome 1968.
  • Scritti letterari . Il Saggiatore, Milan 1968.
  • Intellettuali e azione politica . Editori Riuniti, Rome 1976.

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personal data
SURNAME Alicata, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician (PCI), member of the camera and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Reggio Calabria
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1966
Place of death Rome