biography
pronunciation:
[pahree]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1890–1981)
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| biography:
| Italian politician, born in Pinerolo, Piedmont, NW Italy. Strongly anti-Fascist, he started an organization with Carlo Rosselli to help people hounded by the Fascists to leave the country. He was arrested in 1926 and was in internal exile until 1933. With others he founded the Partito d'Azione (Action Party) and the partisan brigades Giustizia e libertà. He was prime minister in 1945, a deputy in the Constituent Assembly and then a senator. He joined the PSI (Socialist Party) in 1958, became a life senator in 1963, and from 1968 was president of the independent left group in parliament. |
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