biography
pronunciation:
[ravayra]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1889–1988)
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| biography:
| Italian politician, born in Acqui Terme, Piedmont, N Italy. A founder of the Italian Communist Party, she helped set up its clandestine internal centre during the Fascist years, and was arrested in 1930 and jailed. After the war she was a deputy, and in 1982 became the first female life senator. |
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