13 Facts About Giuseppe Pella

Giuseppe Pella was Minister of Treasury, Budget and of Foreign Affairs during the 1950s and early 1960s.

Giuseppe Pella served as President of the European Parliament from 1954 to 1956 after the death of Alcide De Gasperi.

Giuseppe Pella is widely considered one of the most important politicians in Italy's post-war history.

Giuseppe Pella was the second son of Luigi Pella and Viglielmina Bona, sharecroppers in a small farm.

Under the regime of Benito Mussolini, Giuseppe Pella was forced to join the National Fascist Party, to continue his occupation as tax advisor and professor.

In 1934, Giuseppe Pella married Ines Maria Cardolle, from whom he had a daughter, Wanda, born in 1938.

From May 1948 until January 1954 Giuseppe Pella served as Minister of Budget under the premiership of Alcide De Gasperi.

Giuseppe Pella gained further critics when, by issuing nationalistic declarations, he created strife with Josip Broz Tito regarding the Free Territory of Trieste.

Giuseppe Pella's interventionism provoked opposite reactions in Parliament and in the press: Monarchist National Party and the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement strongly supported him, while the leftist parties, and especially the communists, accused him of nationalism and anti-communism.

In May 1957, Giuseppe Pella served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Adone Zoli, of whom he served as Deputy Prime Minister.

Giuseppe Pella became Foreign Affairs Minister again under Segni, from February 1959 until March 1960, and Minister of Budget in Fanfani III Cabinet from July 1960 to February 1962.

Giuseppe Pella led "Piemonte Italia", a promotional institute of studies on the regional economy, which he founded in the 1960s.

Giuseppe Pella died on 31 May 1981 in Rome, at the age of 79.