Giorgio Amendola (21 November 1907 – 5 June 1980) was an Italian writer and politician. He is regarded and often cited as one of the main precursors of the Olive Tree. Born in Rome in 1907, Amendola was the son of Lithuanian intellectual Eva Kühn and Giovanni Amendola, a liberal anti-fascist who died in 1926 in Cannes after being attacked by killers hired by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. He secretly joined the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1929. After graduating in law, he started to promote opposition to the Mussolini regime. Arrested and brought into exile in France, and successively
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Giorgio Amendola (21 November 1907 – 5 June 1980) was an Italian writer and politician. He is regarded and often cited as one of the main precursors of the Olive Tree. Born in Rome in 1907, Amendola was the son of Lithuanian intellectual Eva Kühn and Giovanni Amendola, a liberal anti-fascist who died in 1926 in Cannes after being attacked by killers hired by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. He secretly joined the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1929. After graduating in law, he started to promote opposition to the Mussolini regime. Arrested and brought into exile in France, and successively banished to Santo Stefano Island in the Pontine Islands, Amendola was freed in 1943 by the resistance troops, which he then joined. After World War II, he served as a deputy in the Italian Parliament for the PCI from 1948 until his death in 1980. He became known especially in the 1970s as one of the leaders of the party's right wing, which espoused gradual removal of the ideas of Soviet Communism and Leninism, and supported alliances with the more moderate parties, especially the Italian Socialist Party, a concept later called Eurocommunism. One of his main allies was Giorgio Napolitano,…
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Bibliography Bosworth, R. J. B. (13 January 2023). Politics, Murder and Love in an Italian Family: The Amendolas in the Age of Totalitarianisms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-0092-8016-7. Retrieved 5 July 2023 – via Google Books.
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External links Politics, murder and love in an Italian family : the Amendolas in the age of totalitarianisms / R.J.B. Bosworth Giorgio Amendola, Italian writer and politician (1907–1980)
