Alberto Jacometti (1902–1985) was an Italian journalist and socialist politician. He served as a deputy at the Italian Parliament and as a secretary general of the Italian Socialist Party for a short period between 1948 and 1949. He resigned from the party one year before his death in 1985.
Alberto Jacometti | |
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| Secretary General of the Italian Socialist Party | |
| In office April 1948 – 1949 | |
| Preceded by | Lelio Basso |
| Succeeded by | Pietro Nenni |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 March 1902 San Pietro Mosezzo, Novara, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 10 January 1985 (aged 82) Novara, Italy |
| Political party | Italian Socialist Party |
Biography edit
Jacometti was born in San Pietro Mosezzo, Province of Novara, on 10 March 1902.[1][2] He joined the Italian Socialist Party and participated in World War I.[3] When the oppression of the Fascist rule intensified he left Italy and settled in Paris in 1926.[3][4] There he edited a publication entitled L'iniziativa.[3] In 1929 he settled in Belgium and contributed to a publication, Problemi della Rivoluzione italiana.[3] From 1941 he became part of the National Committee of Liberation for the Novara province.[1]
Following his return to Italy Jacometti was elected as a member of the National Council.[4] Being a member of the Italian Socialist Party he led the centrist faction along with Riccardo Lombardi.[5] In the congress held on 18 April 1948 Jacometti was elected as the secretary general of the Italian Socialist Party succeeding Lelio Basso who had resigned from the office.[3][5] Before the election Jacometti, Riccardo Lombard and Giuseppe Romita led the opposition group against Basso's leadership.[5] Jacometti's term as the secretary general was brief and ended in 1949 when he was forced to resign from the office due to the opposition of Pietro Nenni and Lelio Basso.[3]
Jacometti served at the Italian Parliament until 1963.[4] He left the Italian Socialist Party in 1984 due to his conflict with the party leader Bettino Craxi.[3] Jacometti died in his hometown, Novara, 10 January 1985.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c Giuseppe Sircana (2004). "Jacometti, Alberto". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 62.
- ^ Guglielmo Barone; Guido de Blasio; Elena Gentili (December 2020). "Politically connected cities: Italy 1951-1991" (PDF). Quaderni (1158): 35. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3779802. S2CID 233754455.
- ^ a b c d e f g Renzo Fiammetti (October–December 1991). "Alberto Jacometti dal primo dopoguerra alla stagione del Centrosinistra: La Vita E L'Impegno Politico". Il Politico. 56 (4): 728. JSTOR 43101259.
- ^ a b c "Alberto Jacometti" (in Italian). ANPI. 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ^ a b c Raphael Zariski (June 1962). "The Italian Socialist Party: A Case Study in Factional Conflict". The American Political Science Review. 56 (2): 373. doi:10.2307/1952373. JSTOR 1952373. S2CID 145437028.
External links edit
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