Corrado De Vita (1905, Noto – 21 September 1987, Rome), was an Italian journalist and writer.
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34-533: 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
51-413: 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
68-625: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Corrado De Vita He was born in Noto but completed his studies in Naples , graduating in Literature, a pupil of the Dante scholar it:Francesco Torraca . His thesis was on Ariosto . He then moved to Milan and collaborated with La Fiera Letteraria , a cultural weekly founded and directed by Umberto Fracchia . Later he was editor of
85-453: The Battle of Taranto (November 12, 1940) and the Battle of Cape Matapan (March 23–29, 1941). From this experience grew his first book The Paradise of Sailors (1942), a collection of partly autobiographical short stories. In the same year, after his war period, he was hired by Corriere della Sera as deputy editor-in-chief. During this assignment, he sometimes had some linotypists from
102-494: The province of Latina . As a student, he was a member of GUF (Gruppo Universitario Fascista) and won a "Littoriale" of 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 frequent political differences with Giorgio Amendola , leader of
119-444: The surname De Vita . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=De_Vita&oldid=1248223942 " Categories : Surnames Italian-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
136-543: The Corriere secretly compose the texts for the anti-fascist sheet Fronte , transporting himself the heavy type from the rotary press to be printed at the home of Albe and it:Lica Steiner , where Elio Vittorini also worked. The night of the occupation of Rome by the Germans (8 September 1943), in agreement with Vittorini, Pietro Ingrao , Celeste Negarville , Gillo Pontecorvo and it:Salvatore Di Benedetto , De Vita had
153-798: 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
170-607: The afternoon newspaper it:Milano Sera and was its director from 15 December 1945 to 4 November 1954. In this role he promoted the creation of the Cooperative of the Popular Book (Colip) , the first series of paperback economic books of the post-war period. Subsequently he directed first the Parenti publishing house and then Editori Riuniti , of which he was president. In 1972 he returned to his war experiences with
187-578: The cultural page of the newspaper it:La Tribuna . At the end of the 30s he moved to Il Giornale d'Italia for which he became a war correspondent and made a number of voyages with the Regia Marina . As a war correspondent De Vita witnessed first-hand a number of clashes with the British fleet in which the Regia Marina suffered disastrous defeats: the Battle of Calabria (July 9, 1940),
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#1732776142078204-529: The death of his wife, the painter Caterina Castellucci, known as Katy, whom he had married in 1940. Pietro Ingrao 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). Ingrao was born at Lenola, Lazio , in
221-598: The novel W L'i… which won the Campione Prize, and also published Knowledge of Stefano ( Cognoscenza di Stefano ), with a preface by Carlo Bo , a collection of verses dedicated to his son who died tragically. This work won him the Viareggio Prize . His second volume of poems Sopra è la Terra dates to 1980, with an introductory essay by Michele Rago. He died in Rome on 21 September 1987, two years after
238-418: The 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 exactly 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
255-404: The presses of the Corriere print a large number of copies of the single-sheet paper La Liberta del Popolo . Two arrest warrants were issued for him because of this and he was saved only with the help of his friend it:Raffaele Carrieri who kept him hidden in his Milanese home in via Borgospesso. In 1945, after the war, together with it:Michele Rago , Alfonso Gatto and Mario Bonfadini he founded
272-470: The tendency that was more complacent 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
289-590: 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
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