18 Facts About Ivanoe Bonomi

Ivanoe Bonomi was born in Mantua, Italy, in a bourgeois family.

Ivanoe Bonomi studied natural sciences at the University of Bologna and graduated in 1896.

Ivanoe Bonomi was critical of the decision to call the general strike of September 1904, but nonetheless collaborated with revolutionary syndicalists for the duration of the strike.

Ivanoe Bonomi's positions continued to remain a minority within the Socialist Party even if at this time the main leader was Turati, himself a reformist.

In 1911 Bonomi dissented again with the party line by writing articles expressing lukewarm support for the invasion of Libya.

When Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in May 1915, Ivanoe Bonomi volunteered in the Army and was sent to the front as a sub-lieutenant in the 7th Alpini Regiment, taking part in the fighting.

Ivanoe Bonomi would hold the same Ministry a second time in the Orlando cabinet from January to June 1919.

Ivanoe Bonomi began the publication of the underground newspaper la Ricostruzione.

Ivanoe Bonomi was particularly concerned with suppressing any revolutionary aspirations on part of the leftist parties and pursuing the restoration of pre-Fascist liberal democracy.

Ivanoe Bonomi held the positions of Minister of the Interior and Minister for Italian Africa and, until December 1944, Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Ivanoe Bonomi's appointment was taken without the knowledge of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who considered Badoglio a safer choice and had Mason-MacFarlane dismissed over this decision.

Ivanoe Bonomi approved a decree which provided for the election of a Constituent Assembly after the end of the conflict.

The ensuing government crisis, which saw both Carlo Sforza and Meuccio Reuini being considered as potential prime ministers, was solved with the re-appointment of Ivanoe Bonomi, who offered the position of deputy prime minister to the Christian Democracy and the Communist Party.

Ivanoe Bonomi passed reforms in social security, increasing payments to people with lower pensions.

Ivanoe Bonomi attended the preliminary conference for the adoption of the peace treaty with the Allies, in Paris, as a member of the Italian delegation.

Ivanoe Bonomi was elected as its president, the first after the establishment of the Republic, and served in that position until his death.

Ivanoe Bonomi joined the newly established Italian Socialist Workers' Party, where he held the honorary position of president.

Ivanoe Bonomi died on 20 April 1951 in Palazzo Giustiniani, Rome, the official residence of the President of the Senate, aged 77.