Talk:Giovanni Conti
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First president of the League Anticlericale (founded in Montegranaro 5 February 1908), was most noted as a a Representative uned the Kingdom of Italy and Senator under the Republic. He was amongst those who re-founded the Left Republican in the years after World War I, founder of the daily The Republican Voice and of the weekly Eve (in 1924).
An energetic and early antifascist, Conti gave, on 17 November 1922, a famous speech to the Camera in which he advocated opposition to the republicans' support of a Mussolini ministry. Because of his political opposition to the regime in 1926 Conti was placed under surveiance and then imprisoned.
Following the Second World War, Conti was elected vice-president of the Constituent Assembly and later president of the special committee for re-structuring the Italian judiciary. In 1948 he was instrumental in the constitutional reform of agriculture in Calabria.
His first book Gift of Montegranaro (Civitanova, Gualdesi Publishing, 1905) is a libel on its dear country native Montegranaro, happened thanks to the financial support of some small local enterprises among which, obviously, were yourselves also calzaturifici. - CobaltBlueTony 20:59, 22 September 2006 (UTC) via freetranslation.com
Mid-editing T L Miles 16:59, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
