The 100th anniversary of Giovanni Amendola’s death (April 7, 1926)

On 7 April, one hundred years ago, Giovanni Amendola, a politician, journalist and lecturer in philosophy, died in Cannes from injuries sustained in an attack organised by a fascist group.

Born in Naples on 15 April 1882, Amendola was a leading figure in the anti-fascist political movement and in Italian political and philosophical thought.

Among the Liberal Democrats, he was one of the leading opponents in Parliament and, in 1924, he was a driving force behind the National Union, which was intended to be ‘the foundation of Italian unity and the struggles of the Risorgimento, which had been suppressed and persecuted by the emerging fascist regime’. This new political formation had been joined by reformists, social democrats and Liberal Democrats, including Luigi Einaudi. 

Thanks to his connections with Einaudi and the long-standing friendship that bound him to Francesco Saverio Nitti, the Historical Archive of the Einaudi Foundation (the F.S. Nitti Collection and the L. Einaudi Collection) holds letters and documents by Giovanni Amendola. Specifically: 40 letters from Amendola to Nitti and 25 letters from Nitti to Amendola (1919–1925); 4 letters from Amendola to Einaudi and 2 letters from Einaudi to Amendola (1915–1925).

For books by and about Giovanni Amendola in the Luigi Einaudi Foundation library, click here

For further info on Amendola: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Amendola