Pietro Nenni - Early life and career

Italian statesman, born in Faenza, NEC Italy. An agitator at 17, as editor of Avanti he was exiled by the Fascists (1926). He became secretary-general of the Italian Socialist Party (1944), vice-premier in the Gasperi coalition cabinet (1945–6), and foreign minister (1946–7). His pro-Soviet party did not break finally with the Communists till 1956. In 1963 Nenni became deputy prime minister in the coalition government, including Social Democrats and Socialists. He succeeded in his longstanding aim of uniting the two groups as the United Socialist Party (1966), but in the 1968 elections the Socialists withdrew from the coalition. He was foreign minister in a new coalition from December 1968, but resigned in July 1969.

Pietro Sandro Nenni (February 9, 1891—Rome, January 1, 1980) was an Italian socialist politician, the national secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and lifetime Senator since 1970.

Early life and career

Born in Faenza, Nenni was a pacifist journalist affiliated with the Italian Republican Party before World War I, but joined the Socialist Party in 1921, at the moment of its split with the wing that would form the Communist Party (PCI).