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Sandro Pertini
Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio "Sandro" Pertini was an Italian journalist, socialist politician, partisan and statesman who served as the president of Italy from 1978 to 1985.
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Born 25 September 1896 · Died 24 February 1990 · Q1233
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Pertini proclama lo sciopero generale a Milano 25 aprile 1945
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2026· 3 entries
“they [the German team] will not catch us any more”
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Affaritaliani.it: I VIDEO DI ROMA SEGRETA-La casa segreta di Sandro Pertini, il luogo dove il Presidente tornava semplicemente uomo
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2025· 2 entries
Repubblica: L’arte di essere Sandro Pertini: dalla pipa alla Fiat 500 rossa, una mostra lo racconta
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Corriere: Sandro Pertini, riapre la casa a Fontana di Trevi dove visse con la moglie: ecco la «mansarda» del presidente partigiano
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2023· 1 entry
Corriere della Sera: Sandro Pertini & Carla Voltolina: «Lui diventò presidente e lei fuggì per cinque giorni»
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2022· 3 entries
Il Sussidiario: Sandro Pertini com’è morto?/ Il siparietto con Galeazzi e… (Il viaggio degli eroi)
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Leggo: Sandro Pertini, la mansarda dove viveva a Roma diventa un museo: ma l'attesa è stata lunga 11 anni
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Il Sussidiario: Sandro Pertini, chi è e come è morto/ La pipa, i Mondiali e il Quirinale socialista
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1990· 2 entries
Died 1990-02-24.
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“Well, neofascists who once again stand in the shadows and listen, I boast that I ordered the execution of Mussolini, because I and the others did nothing more than sign a death sentence pronounced by the Italian people twenty years earlier.”
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1988· 1 entry
Won Otto Hahn Peace Medal (1988).
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1986· 1 entry
Won Four Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal in Middelburg (1986).
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1985· 4 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (1985).
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Career landmark: Italian senator for life (1985–1990).
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Stepped down from the presidency, becoming automatically senator for life
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And dedicated to recording and preserving the history of the socialist movement in Italy
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1981· 1 entry
Pertini presided over the formation of the government by Giovanni Spadolini, the first non Christian Democratic Italian government since the time of De Gasperi
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1980· 2 entries
Awarded Collar of the Order of Charles III (1980).
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Awarded Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (1980).
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1978· 2 entries
Career landmark: President of Italy (1978–1985).
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The 81-year-old Pertini was elected President of the Italian Republic, the highest office in the nation
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1976· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1976–1978).
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1972· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1972–1976).
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1968· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1968–1972).
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Career landmark: President of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy (1968–1976).
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1963· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1963–1968).
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1958· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1958–1963).
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1955· 1 entry
Won Gold Medal of Military Valour (1955).
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1953· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1953–1958).
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1948· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Senate of the Italian Republic (1948–1953).
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1946· 1 entry
Pertini married fellow resistance member Carla Voltolina, who remained his wife until his death and served as the companion of the President of Italy during his presidential tenure
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1935· 1 entry
Was interned on Santo Stefano Island, Ventotene (LT), Pontine Islands, an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, where he remained through Italy's entry into World War II and until 1943
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1926· 1 entry
Was sentenced to internment but managed to go into hiding
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1924· 2 entries
Studied at Istituto Cesare Alfieri, laurea (1924).
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Pertini became even more committed to the struggle against the totalitarian regime
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1923· 1 entry
Studied at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, laurea (1923).
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1919· 1 entry
Studied at University of Genoa (1919).
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1918· 1 entry
Joined the Unitary Socialist Party, PSU, then he settled in Florence where he also graduated in political science with a thesis entitled La Cooperazione ("Cooperation"; 1924)
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1914· 1 entry
Studied at Liceo Gabriello Chiabrera di Savona (1914).
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1896· 1 entry
Born 1896-09-25.
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