Elisabetta Conci (23 March 1895 – 1 November 1965)CONCI Elisabetta
Chamber of Deputies was an Italian politician. She was elected to the

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in 1946 as one of the first group of women parliamentarians in Italy. In 1948 she was elected to the

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, which she remained a member of until her death.

Biography

Conci was born in

Trento Trento ( or ; Ladin and lmo, Trent; german: Trient ; cim, Tria; , ), also anglicized as Trent, is a city on the Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th centu ...

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in 1895, the oldest of five daughters of Maria Sandri, a piano teacher, and , who served as a member of the Austrian

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from 1897 until 1917.Elisabetta Conci
Enciclopedia delle donne She was educated at the Ursulines girl's high school in

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and graduated from a music school in piano. After joining her family, which had been confined to

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, she and her sister Amelia were put on trial for irredentism in 1915. However, she was freed of an amnesty granted after the death of Emperor

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before she could be sentenced. She subsequently attended the

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until 1918 and then transferred to the Sapienza University of Rome, where she became a member of the

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, chairing the Rome branch. She graduated with a literature degree in 1920 and became a German teacher at the Leonardo da Vinci Lower Technical Institute in Trento, which had become part of Italy in 1919 (after which her father had become a Senator in the Italian parliament). She became involved in welfare activities, providing afterschool services for poor children. In 1933 she joined the Trento women's fascist organisation, although she was critical of the government and racial laws. Following

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Conci joined

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. She was a candidate for the party in Trento in the 1946 elections (placed second behind party leader Alcide De Gasperi) and was one of 21 women elected. She was re-elected in the 1948 elections, which also saw her father elected to the Senate. She was re-elected again in

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and

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. She was also part of the Italian delegation to the

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. After falling ill in May 1965, she retired to her home in Mollaro in the Non Valley, where she died in November.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Conci, Elisabetta 1895 births People from Trento University of Vienna alumni Sapienza University of Rome alumni Italian schoolteachers Christian Democracy (Italy) politicians Members of the Constituent Assembly of Italy Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy) 1965 deaths 20th-century Italian women politicians Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy)