11 Facts About Mario Alicata

Mario Alicata was an Italian Partisan, literary critic and politician.

Mario Alicata collaborated with the Roman newspaper Il Piccolo, Giuseppe Bottai's journal Primato, the literary weeklies Il Meridiano di Roma and La Ruota.

Mario Alicata secretly enrolled in the Italian Communist Party in 1940, the year in which he graduated with his these Vincenzo Gravina e l'estetica del primo Settecento.

Mario Alicata then became the assistant of Natalino Sapegno, who had been his supervisor.

Mario Alicata was arrested the next year and was freed with the fall of Fascism.

Mario Alicata participated in the resistance against the German occupiers in Roma, running Il Lavoro italiano the united journal of the labour unions with the Christian democrat Alberto Canaletti Gaudenti and the socialist Olindo Vernocchi.

Mario Alicata was secretly among the editors of l'Unita, directed by Celeste Negarville.

Mario Alicata was spokesman for the minority in the Parliamentary commission which discussed the results of the investigation.

Mario Alicata directed the Cultural Commission of the Italian Communist Party from 1955, was a member of the Party directorate from 1956 and was director of L'Unita from 1962.

Mario Alicata signed the editorial of the first issue of the theoretical journal Critica marxista in February 1963, the same year in which he was reelected as Deputy from the district of Siena.

Mario Alicata died suddenly at Rome on 6 December 1966, aged forty-eight.