Ferruccio Ghinaglia

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Ferruccio Ghinaglia (29 September 1899 – 21 April 1921) was an Italian

revolutionary, active in the second decade of the 20th century and killed by political enemies in 1921.

Ghinaglia was born in

.

He arrived in Pavia in 1917 as a student of medicine and earned himself a place in the Ghislieri College which is linked to the University of Pavia, but little afterwards he was called to carry out military service. He managed to reestablish a link with his Cremonese contacts and resumed his place in the Socialist Youth.

After he had moved back to Pavia, he became the leader of the left-wing split of the

) and founder and director of the Pavesan Federation of that party in 1921.

Ghinaglia was a person who asserted the necessity of resistance to the Fascist violence. On the 21 April 1921, Ghinaglia fell victim to a Fascist vendetta and was found dead by a gunshot wound to the head on the bridge overlooking the

still found difficulty in suppressing the anti-Fascist movement.

His killing generating popular disdain that culminated in a massive funeral that marched throughout the streets of Pavia the day after because of his

political assassination

(which is still held as such even today).

He is remembered by toponyms in the cities of Pavia and Cremona and also by the Communist Refoundation Party and other political groups of the Left.

Sources

• Alcune biografie di antifascisti cremonesi: Ferruccio Ghinaglia
• Capitoli di storia militante: Ferruccio Ghinaglia
• 82 anni dall'uccisione di Ferruccio Ghinaglia