Alessandro Natta

Alessandro Natta
General Secretary of the
Italian Communist Party
In office
24 June 1984 – 10 June 1988
Preceded byEnrico Berlinguer
Succeeded byAchille Occhetto
President of the Italian Communist Party
In office
22 March 1989 – 11 March 1990
Preceded byLuigi Longo
Succeeded byAldo Tortorella
Member of the European Parliament
In office
24 July 1984 – 24 July 1989
ConstituencyNorth-East Italy
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
8 May 1948 – 22 April 1992
ConstituencyGenoa
Personal details
Born7 January 1918
Oneglia, Italy
Died23 May 2001(2001-05-23) (aged 83)
Imperia, Italy
Political partyItalian Communist Party

Alessandro Natta (7 January 1918 – 23 May 2001) was an Italian politician and secretary of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) from 1984 to 1988.[1] An illuminist, Jacobin, and communist, as he used to describe himself, Natta represented the political and cultural prototype of a PCI militant and party member for over fifty years of the Italian democratic-republican history.[1] After joining the PCI in 1945, he was deputy from 1948 to 1992, a member of the PCI's central committee starting in 1956, was part of the direction from 1963 and of the secretariat, first from 1962 to 1970 and then from 1979 to 1983, and leader of the PCI parliamentary group from 1972 to 1979; he was also the director of Rinascita from 1970 to 1972.[2] After 1991, he did not join the PCI's successor parties.[2]

Described as a professor, intellectual, and grey, Natta endowed oratorical ability and cultural preparation. He was known for his moral rigor, loyalty to institutions, and cultural and political knowledge; he was more a reader of the classics and Benedetto Croce than Mikhail Suslov. His leadership of the PCI was marked by his oratorical ability and a partisan pride that did not fall into factionalism. As with the other PCI leaders, his private life was separated from his public life, with no compromising photos, glitz, worldiness, and in Gian Carlo Pajetta's words, never "words like horns and lover".[1]

  1. ^ a b c Molinari, Luca (2007). "Alessandro Natta – Biografia in breve". Cronologia (in Italian). Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Natta, Alessandro nell'Enciclopedia Treccani". Treccani (in Italian). Retrieved 21 July 2023.

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