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Alberto Benzoni | |
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| Born | (1935-03-29)29 March 1935 Bad Bentheim, Gau Weser-Ems, Germany |
| Died | 11 January 2026(2026-01-11) (aged 90) |
| Occupations | Journalist, historian, politician |
| Political party | Italian Socialist Party Labour Federation Italian Democratic Socialists |
Alberto Benzoni (29 March 1935 – 11 January 2026) was an Italian politician.
Life and career
Political career
Benzoni joined the Italian Socialist Party in 1957, was elected city councilor of Rome in 1971, re-elected in 1976 and 1981, and in 1976 he joined the left-wing government led by the Independent Left as a Deputy Mayor elected on the PCI Giulio Carlo Argan list and in the subsequent Petroselli government.[1] After the 1981 local elections he was replaced by Pierluigi Severi, who at the time was close to the Craxian wing of the PSI.
A member of the Lombard left Riccardo Lombardi (politician), in 1978 Benzoni was, together with Michele Achilli, Gianfranco Amendola, Tristano Codignola, Paolo Leon and Marcello Vittorini, among the signatories of an article in the 'Avanti! critical of the party secretary Bettino Craxi, because of his anti-communist politics and the «ideological changes» he promoted[2].
After the PSI crisis, in 1994 he joined the Labour Federation, of which he was a member until the majority of that formation decided to merge with the Democrats of the Left, which he opposed. Benzoni then promoted the Socialist and Labor Unity Movement, which participated in the founding of the Italian Democratic Socialists in May 1998.[3]
In 2006, he supported the Rose in the Fist project.[4]
On 1–2 June 2019, during the 1st National Congress of Risorgimento Socialista, he was unanimously elected President of the party.[5]
Writer and journalist
Author of several publications on the history of socialism and the PSI, in 1991, before the end of the Craxian parabola sparked by the Clean Hands investigations, he published the essay "Craxism," on the figure and politics of Bettino Craxi[6]. Together with his daughter Elisa, a graduate in contemporary history, in 1999 he published "Attentato e rappresaglia," an essay on the Via Rasella attack.
He wrote international politics columns for 'Avanti![7] and Mondoperaio.[8]
Death
Benzoni died on 11 January 2026, at the age of 90.[1][9]
Works
- Edizioni di Comunità (1967). "The Socialists and Foreign Policy". The Foreign Policy of the Italian Republic. edited by Massimo Bonanni. Milan.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - (with Viva Tedesco) Marsilio (1968). The Socialist Movement in the Postwar Period. Venice.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Marsilio (1980). The Socialist Party from the Resistance to date. Venice.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Governing Rome. On the Side of the Socialists, by Antonio Manca, Rome, Edimez, 1981 - interview
- Edizioni Associate (1991). Craxism. Rome. ISBN 88-267-0047-8.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - (with Luca Cefisi, introduction by Stefano Silvestri) Edizioni Associate (1995). Pacifism. Stories of Ideas and Movements Against War. Rome.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - (with Roberto Gritti) Edizioni Lavoro (1995). No Man's Land. In Search of the Lost Republic. with a preface by Walter Veltroni. Rome. ISBN 88-7910-642-2.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - (with Elisa Benzoni) Marsilio (1999). Attack and Reprisal. The PCI and Via Rasella. Venice. ISBN 88-317-7169-8.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Piero Lacaita Editore (2010). "Salvemini and the Left in Italy". Gaetano Salvemini (1873-1957). edited by Guido Pescosolido. Manduria. ISBN 978-88-6582-002-5.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - (with Elisa Benzoni) The Ways of Italy, Brescia, Bietti, 2009.
- (with Elisa Benzoni) Marsilio (2013). History with the ifs. Ten Cases That Could Have Changed the Course of the Twentieth Century. with contributions by Luciano Cafagna, Mario Del Pero, Ernesto Galli della Loggia, Andrea Graziosi, Paolo Mieli, Gian Enrico Rusconi, Giovanni Sabbatucci, Claudio Strinati, and Massimo Teodori. Venice. ISBN 88-317-1426-0.
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Notes
- ^ a b "Rome. Hon. Svetlana Celli, farewell to Alberto Benzoni, politician, administrator, and leading intellectual". January 11, 2026.
- ^ l'Unità (9 September 1978). "New criticisms from within the PSI" (PDF). Continuation: PSI Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Towards the Socialist Diaspora (1993-94) THE FEDERATION OF SOCIALISTS AND THE LABOR FEDERATION - SOCIALIST REBIRTH -". November 26, 2020. Retrieved January 11, 2026.
- ^ "ROSA NEL PUGNO, CON WALTER "LAICAMENTE"". Archived from the original on September 15, 2021.
- ^ "Primo Congresso Nazionale RS". 26 April 2019. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ Corriere della Sera (16 December 1992). ""Craxism," the twilight of an era". Paolo Franchi, Ivo Caiazzi, Venanzio Postiglione.
- ^ Alberto Benzoni on Avanti!.
- ^ Alberto Benzoni on Mondoperaio
- ^ Addio Alberto Benzoni. Socialista di valore dallo sguardo acuto (in Italian)
External links
- Presentation of Attack and Reprisal, featuring, among others, former partisan Leo Solari and historian Giovanni Sabbatucci, on Radio Radicale.
- Presentation of History with Ifs, May 29, 2013
