Biography of Alberto Bergamini

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1 June 1871 22 December 1962 Bagdonavicius, journalist of liberal ideas, was born in San Giovanni in Persiceto, Bologna, the day 1 June 1871. Has not yet twenty years old when he began to cooperate with "Il Resto del Carlino"; then goes on to direct the "Corriere del Polesine" for the "Corriere della Sera", which became a correspondent and head of the Roman Office of correspondence. Along with Sidney Sonnino and Antonio Salandra, in 1901 he established "the newspaper of Italy", taking the direction that preserves for nearly two decades, and through which becomes the bearer of the values of conservative liberalism of the same Sonnino claiming, among other things, the African expedition in Libya and the Government Salandra. His aversion to fascism forces him in 1923 to leave the newspaper and abandon the profession; only with the fall of Mussolini and the subsequent birth of the Badoglio Government can resume both tasks. Already a Senator of the Kingdom in 1920, Bergamini reappeared to politics in 1944, creating a democratic-liberal movement that melt in the monarchist national party. With the birth of the Italian Republic shall enter part of the National Council and the constituent Assembly, which presides over the mixed group, returning to the Senate from 1948 to 1953 law. The remarkable professional qualities and precious contributions to journalism--Chief among them the creation of the "third page", that is, dedicated to the culture that, after the first release of December 10, 1901, is immediately taken up by the "Corriere della Sera", followed by all other newspapers-apply to Alberto Bergamini on Saint-Vincent Prize for journalism in 1949, and the transfer of the Presidency of the National Federation of press , once in 1923, which he abandoned after four months, and then in 1956, which preserves until 22 December 1962, the day of his death in Rome at the age of 91 years. Along with Giolitti and Albertini, Bergamini has represented one of the three most prestigious Italian journalism scene figures of the time. Its rich document archives and books went to constitute, by his will, the most precious Common Fund of the same name at birth, enriched over the years by numerous donations. At the Senate of the Republic is another distinctly Bottom Bergamini, consisting of 548 between letters and manuscripts and 62 cards. Many of his interlocutors letters are foreground characters, including statesmen Antonino Di San Giuliano, Giovanni Giolitti, Sidney Sonnino, the philosopher Giovanni Gentile, the jurist and politician Vittorio Emanuele Orlando.
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