Leo Valiani

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Senator for life
Leo Valiani
Leó Weiczen
Member of the Senate of the Republic
Life tenure
12 January 1980 – 18 September 1999
Appointed bySandro Pertini
Personal details
Born(1909-02-09)9 February 1909
PCdI (1928–1939)
PdA (1943–1947)
PR (1956–1962)
PRI
(1980s)
OccupationJournalist and historian

Leo Valiani (born 9 February 1909 – 18 September 1999) was an Italian historian, politician, and journalist.[1]

Early life

Valiani was born Leó Weiczen in Fiume (now

Fascist Italy regime in 1927.[2][3] In later childhood, Valiani lived in Trieste, and later in the Kingdom of Italy.[4]

Career and activities

A member of the

anti-fascist acts he had committed in the 1920s.[2] Valiani left for exile in the French Third Republic once he was released, before leaving for the Second Spanish Republic, where he fought during the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Republican faction.[5] In 1939, after the defeat by the Nationalist faction of Francisco Franco, he fled to France where he was detained as a political prisoner in Camp Vernet together with Arthur Koestler, who wrote about it in his book Scum of the Earth, before later fleeing to Mexico.[1]

Originally a

Allen W. Dulles.[4]

Valiani joined the

liberal socialist ideals trampled under the conflicting interests of the larger Italian Communist and Christian Democracy parties — he took refuge in historical studies.[5]

Valiani edited a special issue of Il Ponte on Yugoslavia in 1955.[6] He adhered to the Radical Party from 1956 to 1962 and to the Italian Republican Party in the 1980s. He considered journalism as his true career. He wrote for the news weekly L'Espresso for 35 years and collaborated with Il Mondo and the Corriere della Sera.[7] Sandro Pertini, the then Italian president, named him senator for life in 1980.[3][7]

Death

Cimitero Monumentale
in Milan, Italy, in 2015

Valiani died in

Cimitero Monumentale, in the main chapel of the cemetery.[1][8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Willan, Philip (21 September 1999). "Leo Valiani". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  2. ^ a b Varesi, Valerio (8 February 2019). "Chi era Leo Valiani, il partigiano della libertà". La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-1-4426-5906-3
    .
  4. ^
    ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  5. ^ a b c Obituary: Leo Valiani, The Independent, 27 September 1999
  6. ^ Vanni D'Alessio (2015). "Leo Weiczen Valiani and his Multilayered Identities: An Introduction". Časopis za povijest Zapadne Hrvatske. 10: 13.
  7. ^ a b "Leo Valiani". SFGATE. 21 September 1999. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  8. ISSN 0013-0613
    . Retrieved 20 November 2020.

External links
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