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Nenni
Pietro Sandro Nenni (; 9 February 1891 – 1 January 1980) was an Italian socialist politician and statesman, the national secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and senator for life since 1970. He was a recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1951. He was one of the founders of the Italian Republic and a central figure of the Italian political left from the 1920s to the 1960s. Early life and career Nenni was born in Faenza, in Emilia-Romagna. After his peasant parents died, he was placed in an orphanage by an aristocratic family. Every Sunday, he recited his catechism before the countess and if he did well, he received a silver coin, which he recalled as "generous but humiliating".Italy's New Partnership ''Time ''Magazine, 13 December 1963 Nenni was aff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittoria Nenni
Vittoria Gorizia Daubeuf (née Nenni; 31 October 1915 – 15 or 16 July 1943) was an Italian Anti-fascism, anti-fascist activist, active in the French Resistance during the World War II, Second World War. The daughter of Italian socialist politician Pietro Nenni, Vittoria and her family fled to France in 1928 to escape persecution and violence in Fascist Italy. Nenni grew up in interwar France and married the publisher Henri Dabeuf in 1937. In 1942, during the German military administration in occupied France during World War II, Nazi occupation of France, Dabeuf was caught printing French Communist Party leaflets and executed by firing squad. Nenni was also arrested and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she spent seven months before dying of disease, probably typhoid fever. Background Vittoria Gorizia Nenni was born in Ancona on 31 October 1915 as the third daughter of Pietro Nenni, later a central figure and leader of the Italian Socialist Party, and Carmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
