Bruno Visentini

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Bruno Visentini (August 1, 1914 - February 13, 1995) was an Italian politician, senator, minister, lecturer and industrialist.

Biography

Visentini was born at Treviso.

He graduated in law at the Padua University and joined anti-fascist student associations. In 1941 he emigrated to France, where. in 1943, he was arrested and released after July 25, the day of resignation of Benito Mussolini. He was the co-founder of Action Party (Partito d'Azione) with Ugo La Malfa and took part to the resistance against the German occupation in Veneto and in Rome.

In 1946 he abandoned the Action Party and joined the Italian Republican Party (PRI). He was also appointed professor at the University of Urbino. In December 1945 Visentini was nominated undersecretary for Minister of Finance in Alcide De Gasperi's first cabinet. In 1950 he became vice-president of the Institute for Industrial Reconstruction (IRI), a position he held until 1970; while at IRI, he was chairman of Olivetti (1963 - 1982, with a short interruption).

In the 1972 election Visentini was elected as a Member of Parliament for PRI. Two years later he was elected vice-president of Confederation of Italian Industry (Confindustria) but on November 23 he resigned to become Minister of Finance in Aldo Moro's fourth government, during which he launched a program of reforms of the fiscal system. In the 1976 election Visentini was elected Senator and in 1979 he became vice-premer and Minister for budget in Giulio Andreotti's fifth government after Ugo La Malfa's death until. He resigned in the following July. He was again Minister of Finance when Bettino Craxi had tenure as Italian Prime Minister in the 1980s.

He was president of his party from 1979 to 1992, Member of the European Parliament twice (elected in 1979 and 1989), and also re-elected senator in the 1983, 1987 and 1992 elections. Later he left PRI and was elected at Italian Senate with Alliance of Progressives led by Achille Occhetto in the 1994 election.

He died in Rome in 1995.

Political offices
Preceded by Mario Tanassi	Italian Minister of Finance November 23, 1974 - February 12, 1976	Succeeded by Gaetano Stammati
Preceded by Ugo La Malfa	Italian Minister for budget March 29, 1979 - July 14, 1979	Succeeded by Giulio Andreotti
Preceded by Francesco Forte	Italian Minister of Finance August 4, 1983 - April 17, 1987	Succeeded by Giuseppe Guarino

v t e Andreotti V Cabinet (March–August 1979)

Di Giesi Forlani Rognoni Morlino La Malfa/Visentini Malfatti Pandolfi Ruffini Spadolini Compagna Marcora Preti Colombo Nicolazzi Anselmi Preti (interim) Bisaglia Scotti Antoniozzi Ariosto

v t e Craxi I Cabinet (1983–1986)

Forlani Romita/Vizzini Granelli Forte/Fortuna Scotti/Zamberletti Biondi/Valerio Zanone Gaspari De Vito Mammì Andreotti Scalfaro Martinazzoli Longo/Craxi/Romita Visentini Goria Spadolini Falcucci Nicolazzi Pandolfi Signorile Gava Altissimo Degan Capria Carta Darida De Michelis Gullotti Lagorio

v t e Craxi II Cabinet (1986–1987)

Forlani Vizzini Granelli Fabbri Zamberletti Gaspari De Vito Mammì Andreotti Scalfaro Rognoni Romita Visentini Goria Spadolini Falcucci Nicolazzi Pandolfi Signorile Gava Zanone Donat-Cattin Formica Degan Darida Gullotti De Michelis Capria De Lorenzo

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 45195996 LCCN: n2001113822 ISNI: 0000 0001 0968 4697 GND: 122935810

Persondata
Name	Visentini, Bruno
Alternative names
Short description	Italian politician
Date of birth	August 1, 1914
Place of birth
Date of death	February 13, 1995
Place of death

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