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Pietro Ingrao

Italian politician and journalist (1915–2015)

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Italian politician and journalist (1915–2015)

Field	Value
name	Pietro Ingrao
image	PietroIngrao.jpg
order	President of the Chamber of Deputies
term_start	5 July 1976
term_end	19 June 1979
predecessor	Sandro Pertini
successor	Nilde Iotti
order2	Member of the Chamber of Deputies
term_start2	27 September 1950
term_end2	22 April 1992
constituency2	Rome (1950–1963; 1976–1983)
Perugia (1963–1972; 1983–1992)
Bologna (1972–1976)
birth_date
birth_place	Lenola, Italy
death_date
death_place	Rome, Italy
nationality	Italian
alma_mater	Sapienza University of Rome
profession	Politician
children	5 (Chiara, Renata, Bruna, Celeste, Guido)
spouse	Laura Lombardo Radice
party	PCI (until 1991)
PDS (1991–1993)
PRC (2005–2009)
SEL (2009–2015)

Perugia (1963–1972; 1983–1992) Bologna (1972–1976) PDS (1991–1993) PRC (2005–2009) SEL (2009–2015)

Pietro Ingrao (30 March 1915 – 27 September 2015) was an Italian politician and journalist who participated in the Italian resistance movement. For many years, he was a senior figure in the Italian Communist Party (PCI).

Biography

Ingrao was born at Lenola, Lazio, in the province of Latina. As a student, he was a member of GUF (Gruppo Universitario Fascista) and won a "Littoriale" for culture and art. Ingrao joined the PCI in 1940 and took part in the anti-fascist resistance during World War II. After the war, he was an important representative of the left-wing, more explicitly Marxist–Leninist tendency in the party. This led him to frequently express his political differences with Giorgio Amendola, leader of the tendency that was more orientated towards social democracy.

Ingrao was a member of the Italian Parliament continuously from 1950 to 1992. From 1947 to 1957, he was editor-in-chief of the party newspaper L'Unità. The tensions between Ingrao's and Amendola's vision became sharper throughout the first half of the 1960s. According to Lucio Magri, Ingrao was portrayed by his detractors as a utopian dreamer who refused any temporary compromise with the center-left, but incorrectly so. In fact, Ingrao acknowledged the value of reforms on the "road to socialism", but he found the vision of Amendola and Longo to be devoid of a long-term strategic plan. Magri adds that Ingrao's dissent was important "because it meant that a 'non-dogmatic, non-Stalinist' Left was present for the first time within a Communist party".

During the Eleventh Party Congress (1966), Ingrao openly criticized Longo's refusal to allow public debate, which made him popular with a part of the participants. However, it also led to the party leadership demonizing him as a factionalist; Ingrao later recalled that the leading cadres retained a cold posture in their seats and declined to shake his hand afterwards. Mario Alicata denounced Ingrao's statements as harmful to party unity. Magri clarifies that Ingrao's aim was not to challenge democratic centralism (Ingrao himself later voted for the expulsion of the faction around il manifesto), but to return to democratic centralism as it was originally conceived by Lenin. This vision entailed a more transparent process of argument and a party democracy that was not limited only to occasional congresses.

Ingrao was the first Communist to become president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, a position he held from 1976 to 1979. After PCI's then-secretary Achille Occhetto, in what was called the Svolta della Bolognina, decided to change the party's name, Ingrao became his main internal opponent. In the PCI's 20th Congress of 1991, he joined the reformist majority in its successor, the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS), but soon left the group. After the 2004 European Parliament election in Italy, he abandoned the PDS and adhered as an independent to the more hardline successor to the old PCI, the Communist Refoundation Party.

Ingrao wrote a number of poems and political essays. His most important work is Appuntamenti di fine secolo ("Rendez-Vous at the End of the Century"), which was published in 1995 in collaboration with Rossana Rossanda. He was an atheist. He married , who died in 2003. Ingrao died on 27 September 2015, at the age of 100.

Electoral history

Election	House	Constituency	Votes	Result	1948
Chamber of Deputies	Rome–Viterbo–Latina–Frosinone	Italian Communist Party}}"	PCI	26,801	Not elected
Chamber of Deputies	Rome–Viterbo–Latina–Frosinone	Italian Communist Party}}"	PCI	20,457	Elected
Chamber of Deputies	Rome–Viterbo–Latina–Frosinone	Italian Communist Party}}"	PCI	33,820	Elected
Chamber of Deputies	Perugia–Terni–Rieti	Italian Communist Party}}"	PCI	48,423	Elected
Chamber of Deputies	Perugia–Terni–Rieti	Italian Communist Party}}"	PCI	42,441	Elected
Chamber of Deputies	Bologna–Ferrara–Ravenna–Forlì	Italian Communist Party}}"	PCI	48,718	Elected
Chamber of Deputies	Rome–Viterbo–Latina–Frosinone	Italian Communist Party}}"	PCI	62,623	Elected
Chamber of Deputies	Rome–Viterbo–Latina–Frosinone	Italian Communist Party}}"	PCI	53,369	Elected
Chamber of Deputies	Perugia–Terni–Rieti	Italian Communist Party}}"	PCI	57,148	Elected
Chamber of Deputies	Perugia–Terni–Rieti	Italian Communist Party}}"	PCI	57,220	Elected

References

Sources

References

Ajello, At. (September 14, 2004). "Pietro Ingrao "I miei errori"". [[La Repubblica]].
Donald Sassoon. (9 October 2015). "Pietro Ingrao obituary". the Guardian.
Magri, Lucio. (2018). "The Tailor of Ulm: A History of Communism". Verso.
Ingrao, Pietro. (1990). "Interventi sul campo". CUEN.
Magri, Lucio. (2018). "The Tailor of Ulm: A History of Communism". Verso.
. (1966). "XI Congresso del PCI. Atti e risoluzioni". *Editori Riuniti*.
Pietro Ingrao, [https://ilmanifesto.it/la-questione-del-manifesto-comitato-centrale-del-pci-1969 ''La questione del Manifesto''], discorso pronunciato presso il Comitato Centrale del PCI il 15 ottobre 1969, ''[[Il Manifesto]]'', 31 marzo 2015.
Magri, Lucio. (2018). "The Tailor of Ulm: A History of Communism". Verso.
Telese, Luca. (2009). "Qualcuno era comunista". Sperling & Kupfer.
Quinzio, Sergio. "Ingrao convertito. anzi no". Il Corriere della Sera.
(23 March 2003). "Muore Laura Lombardo Radice, partigiana e moglie di Ingrao". Il Messaggero.
[http://www.repubblica.it/politica/2015/09/27/news/morto_pietro_ingrao-123799642/?ref=HREA-1 ''Addio a Pietro Ingrao, morto a Roma lo storico dirigente del Pci''], ''[[La Repubblica]]'', 27 September 2015.

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