13 Facts About Adone Zoli

Adone Alvaro Ugo Natale Camillo Zoli was an Italian politician who served as the 35th prime minister of Italy from May 1957 to July 1958; he was the first senator to have ever held the office.

Adone Zoli grew up in a wealthy and Catholic observant family.

Adone Zoli fought in the World War I as a volunteer, taking part in the battle of Caporetto and obtained, at the end of the conflict, two crosses for war merit and one for military honor.

On 25 September 1945, Adone Zoli was appointed in the National Council, an unelected provisional legislative assembly set up in the Kingdom of Italy after the end of World War II.

Adone Zoli remained in office until 1 June 1946, when new election were held, in which Zoli decided not to run.

Adone Zoli implemented important measures that included the abolition of the head shaving for prisoners sentenced to short penalties and the exemption from the obligation to wear prison clothes for prisoners.

Adone Zoli established that the condemned should be called by prison officers by name and no longer by matriculation number.

Adone Zoli increased the courses of education, cinematographic and theatrical performances, and allowed to keep in the cell the necessary to write, as well as the photographs of their families.

Fanfani formed a one-party government composed only by members of the Christian Democracy and Adone Zoli was appointed Minister of Finance.

Adone Zoli formed a one-party cabinet, composed only by members of the Christian Democracy, in which he kept the ad interim Ministry of Budget.

Adone Zoli approved the request of the MSI to bury the body of Benito Mussolini in Predappio, his hometown; a request that was supported by Pietro Nenni, leader of the Italian Socialist Party, who was a personal friend of Mussolini during the 1910s.

Adone Zoli died in Rome on 20 February 1960, at the age of 72.

Adone Zoli was buried in the family grave in the cemetery of San Cassiano in Predappio, a few meters from the crypt of Mussolini.