Domenico Pittella

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Gianni Pittella
Pittella in 1976
President of the Hygiene and Health Commission of the Senate of the Republic
In office
2 July 1980 – 11 July 1983
Preceded byBiagio Pinto
Succeeded byAdriano Bompiani
Member of the Senate of the Republic
In office
25 May 1972 – 11 July 1983
ConstituencyBasilicata (Lagonegro)
Personal details
Born
Domenico Pittella

(1932-02-07)7 February 1932
Lauria, Italy
Died15 April 2018(2018-04-15) (aged 86)
Lauria, Italy
Political partyItalian Socialist Party
SpouseLaurita
Children2 (Gianni and Marcello)
EducationUniversity of Naples Federico II
OccupationPolitician, surgeon

Domenico Pittella (7 February 1932 – 15 April 2018) was an Italian politician. A member of the Italian Socialist Party, Pittella served on the Senate of the Republic between 1972 and 1983. He was a trained surgeon, which costed him a conviction when he treated Natalia Ligas, a fugitive member of the Red Brigades. His two sons are also politicians. Referred to as the Pittellas, they are considered a dynasty in the Basilicata region.

Early life, family, and education

Pittella was born in

Jesuit college in Naples and returned to Lauria, where he completed his elementary studies and prepared himself privately for middle school. In 1945, he obtained his diploma in Salerno. He continued his studies at the high school of Castrovillari and began working as a nurse in a practice in Lauria after his graduation. In 1956, he graduated in medicine and surgery at the University of Naples Federico II.[1][2][3]

Political career

Pittella was a member of the Italian Socialist Party. He approached politics in 1968, when he supported some municipal councilors of the Italian Communist Party who were elected. He made himself well-liked in local political circles and ran for office in the 1970 Basilicata regional election, from which he emerged as councilor with broad consensus (5,300 votes in his municipality alone). In the 1972 Italian general election, he ran for the Senate of the Republic for the Italian Socialist Party. In the Lagonegro constituency, he obtained 26.4% of the votes, behind Bonaventura Picardi of Christian Democracy who garnered 46.2%; both were elected senators. At the end of the electoral campaign, on the holiday of 1 May 1972 and in the presence of the then Italian Socialist deputy Luigi Bertoldi, future Minister of Labor and Social Security, Pittella had inaugurated the first part of his hospital with a capacity of seventy places.[4][5]

In the Lauria constituency at the

prime minister of Italy.[6][7]

In 1984, it was decided to expel Pittella from the party.

Potenza–Matera constituency, where he garnered 4,881 votes, not enough to be elected. For the election, Pittella's Italian League had formed a coalition with other movements, including the Southern Front and the National Popular League of Stefano Delle Chiaie and Tomaso Staiti di Cuddia delle Chiuse, and formed an electoral list called the League of Leagues, close to the right-wing circles of the Italian Social Movement.[12]

Personal life, Ligas case, and death

In 1957, aged 25, Pittella married Laurita. Together, they had two children, who were born in 1958 and 1962. His younger son

president of Basilicata from 2013 to 2018,[13] while his eldest son Gianni Pittella held the position of deputy, senator, and member of the European Parliament,[14][15][16] and are considered a dynasty in the region.[17][18][19]

In the Ligas case, Pittella was involved for subversive association and participation in an armed gang for having made Sanatrix, his clinic in Lauria, available to the Red Brigades. In 1981, he treated the fugitive terrorist Natalia Ligas without drawing up a report.[20] Ligas had been wounded in the thigh in a firefight three weeks earlier (19 June 1981), during which some members of the Red Brigades had made an unsuccessful attempt on the life of Antonio De Vita, defense lawyer of the repentant terrorist Patrizio Peci, who defended himself by shooting his gun. Furthermore, Pittella was accused of having developed a plan with the Red Brigades to kidnap for extortion purposes Ferdinando Schettini, the vice-president of Basilicata and his political rival within the Italian Socialist Party, who as the region's health councilor had revoked the agreement with Pittella's clinic the region.[21][22]

Pittella was arrested on 4 October 1983 and served the first two years and nine months of detention between his home and the

Rebibbia prison. The debt with the Italian justice system, then reduced by a third due to a partial pardon granted on 18 November 1999 by Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, the then president of the Italian Republic, and already partially paid (approximately five years), was extinguished through entrustment to social services in 2000.[27]

Pittella fell and broke his hip on 14 February 2018.[28] He died in Lauria on 15 April 2018, aged 86, of complications from the injury.[29]

References

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  2. ^ "E' venuto a mancare l'ex senatore Domenico Pittella, il padre di Marcello e Gianni Pittella". TRMTV (in Italian). 15 April 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Morto ex senatore Pittella curò il brigatista Ligas". La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno (in Italian). 15 April 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  4. ^ Lamboglia, Mario (10 September 2011). "Gli anni difficili. Domenico Pittella si racconta". Eco di Basilicata Calabria Campania (in Italian). Lauria. p. 14. Retrieved 27 March 2024 – via Calaméo.
  5. ^ Brienza, Rosita Stella (2 August 2015). "Tra ragione e sentimento. Un uomo, un medico e un politico del Mezzogiorno d'Italia" (PDF). p. 43. Retrieved 27 March 2024 – via GianniPittella.com, October 2020.
  6. ^ Mennella, Giuseppe F. (8 May 1983). "Il giudice: 'Il senatore Pittella in contatto col vertice delle Br'" (PDF). L'Unità (in Italian). Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  7. ^ Lamboglia, Mario (10 September 2011). "Gli anni difficili. Domenico Pittella si racconta". Eco di Basilicata Calabria Campania (in Italian). Lauria. p. 14. Retrieved 27 March 2024 – via Calaméo.
  8. ^ Sergi, Pantaleone (17 August 1984). "'Io delle BR non so nulla'". La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  9. ^ "Lega Meridionale: a Taranto convegno con Gelli". Adnkronos (in Italian). 28 February 1991. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  10. ^ "Leghe: ne nasce un'altra". Adnkronos (in Italian). 14 June 1991. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  11. ^ Vasile, Vincenzo (31 July 2011). "Le amicizie imbarazzanti di Bossi". L'Unità (in Italian). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  12. ^ Tucci, Bruno (3 March 1992). "'Chiamala LEGA e qualche voto arriverà'. L'ex PSI Pittella vuole imitare Bossi al Sud". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). p. 4. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  13. ^ Mackinson, Thomas (6 July 2018). "Basilicata, chi è il presidente Pittella. Poltrone, processi ed eccessi della family di notabili di partito mai rottamati". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  14. ^ Rizzini, Marianna (21 January 2016). "Da Strasburgo alla Basilicata, ecco l'epopea glocal dei Pittellas". Il Foglio (in Italian). Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  15. ^ Bracalini, Paolo (29 January 2018). "La dynasty dei Pittella: c'è un posto per tutti". Il Giornale. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  16. ^ Olivo, Federica (18 March 2024). "Sistema Pittella. Tutte le manovre di Marcello, il Jep Gambardella della sinistra lucana". HuffPost Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  17. ^ Arachi, Alessandra (15 March 2024). "Regionali in Basilicata, Pittella (Azione) fresco di assoluzione detta l'agenda a Pd e M5S: 'O seguono le nostre idee o andiamo avanti da soli'". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  18. ^ Rossi, Cosimo (19 March 2024). "Pittella, una dynasty in Basilicata. Quei socialisti diventati calendiani: ma le elezioni fanno litigare i fratelli". Quotidiano Nazionale (in Italian). Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  19. ^ Padellaro, Antonio (20 March 2024). "Ai nuovi mostri noi rispondiamo con i Pittellas". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  20. ^ Scottoni, Franco (25 January 1985). "Insurrezione armata, a giudizio l'ex senatore del PSI Pittella". La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  21. ^ "Fa nuove ammissioni Pittella, la sua posizione s'aggrava'" (PDF). L'Unità (in Italian). 16 October 1983. p. 5. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  22. ^ "Moro-Ter, per i giudici Pittella era delle Br" (PDF). L'Unità (in Italian). 14 August 1984. p. 5. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  23. ^ "Decreto del Presidente della Repubblica 10 marzo 1986, n. 130". Normattiva (in Italian). 10 March 1986. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  24. ^ Vulpio, Carlo (6 November 1993). "Pittella e' latitante. Curò una terrorista". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). p. 15. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  25. ^ Lamboglia, Mario (10 September 2011). "Gli anni difficili. Domenico Pittella si racconta". Eco di Basilicata Calabria Campania (in Italian). Lauria. p. 30. Retrieved 27 March 2024 – via Calaméo.
  26. ISBN 978-88-89828-15-1
    . Retrieved 27 March 2024 – via Google Books.
  27. ^ "Terrorismo, concessa la grazia parziale all'ex senatore del PSI Pittella". Quotidiano Nazionale (in Italian). 17 February 2000. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  28. ^ "Morto l'ex senatore Domenico Pittella". Basilicata24 (in Italian). 15 April 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  29. ^ "E' morto il senatore Domenico 'don Mimì' Pittella, il padre del governatore lucano Marcello e del senatore Gianni. Cordoglio mondo politico". SassiLive (in Italian). 15 April 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2018.

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