Gisella Floreanini
Gisella Floreanini | |
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| Member of the Parliament | |
| In office 1948–1958 | |
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| Born | 3 April 1906 Milan, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 30 May 1993 (aged 87) Milan, Italy |
| Political party | Italian Communist Party |
Gisella Floreanini (1906–1993) was an Italian teacher and politician who was an anti–Fascist activist and was a member of the Italian Parliament between 1948 and 1958.
Early life and education
[edit]Floreanini was born in Milan on 3 April 1906.[1] She graduated from a conservatory and worked as a teacher during which she became familiar with the anti-Fascist movement.[2]
Anti-Fascist activities and exile
[edit]Following the murder of Giacomo Matteotti in June 1924 Floreanini exiled into Lugano, Switzerland, where she collaborated with the anti-Fascist figures.[1] She briefly returned to Italy in 1929, but left the country again for Lugano.[1] In 1942 she joined the Italian Communist Party.[1] In late 1943 she settled in Italy where she continued her struggle against the Fascists.[1] She was arrested by the Swiss police while carrying the documents for anti-Fascists groups.[1] She was imprisoned for four months.[2] Following her release from prison she joined the partisans in Val d'Ossola and held a cabinet post in the Partisan Republic of Ossola between September and October 1944.[1] She was responsible for the women defense groups.[1]
Floreanini was among the contributors of the communist magazine Rinascita which was started in 1944.[3]
Political career
[edit]Floreanini was named a member of the National Council in 1946.[4] She was elected to the Parliament for the constituency of Novara-Turin-Vercelli for the Communist Party in the general elections in 1948 and in 1953.[4] She did not run for a seat in the 1958 election.[4] She was a member of the Federation of the Italian Communist Party in Novara and a municipal councilor both in Novara and in Domodossola.[4] From 1963 to 1968 she was also a city councilor in Milan.[4]
Between 1959 and 1963 Floreanini was a member of the secretariat of the International Women Federation in Berlin and in 1965 she became director of the Union of Italian Women and National Association of Italian Partisans.[2]
Personal life and death
[edit]Floreanini married Gianni Todaro with whom she had a daughter.[2] She returned from exile in 1929, and during this period her husband died.[2] Her second husband, Vittorio Della Porta, was a physician who left her when she was in prison in 1944.[2] They later divorced in Switzerland, but it was not recognized in Italy.[5] Due to this Floreanini experienced problems in being a candidate for the National Council.[5]
Floreanini died of cardiac arrest in Milan on 30 May 1993.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h "Gisella Floreanini. La storia di una "madre" della Repubblica" (in Italian). Associazione Casa della Resistenza. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Gisella Floreanini" (in Italian). Giunta Provvisoria di Governo. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
- ^ Philip Cooke (1998). The Legacy of the Italian Resistance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 62. doi:10.1057/9780230119017. ISBN 978-0-230-11901-7.
- ^ a b c d e Antonella Braga (2015). Gisella Floreanini (in Italian). Enciclopedia delle donne.
- ^ a b Molly Tambor (2014). The Lost Wave: Women and Democracy in Postwar Italy. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 51. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199378234.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-937824-1.
External links
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- 20th-century Italian women politicians
- 1906 births
- 1993 deaths
- Italian anti-fascists
- Italian Communist Party politicians
- Deputies of Legislature I of Italy
- Deputies of Legislature II of Italy
- Exiled Italian politicians
- Members of the National Council (Italy)
- Politicians from Milan
- Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy)
- Women's International Democratic Federation people