Achille Lauro

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Achille Lauro (Script error: No such module "IPA".; 16 June 1887 – 15 November 1982) was an Italian businessman and politician. He is widely considered one of the main precursors of modern populism in Italian politics. He was nicknamed by his supporters Il Comandante ("The Commander").[1]

Biography

Born the fifth of six children of the shipowner Gioacchino and of Laura Cafiero, he was on his part the shipowner and founder of the "Flotta Lauro", based in Southern Italy.

During the decades of Italian Fascist dictatorship (1922–1943), he became a member of the National Fascist Party (PNF) and was named National Counselor of the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations, appointed to this position by Galeazzo Ciano, son-in-law of Benito Mussolini himself, who was active in shipping commerce. Also during this period he was named president of the Naples football club SSC Napoli, where he succeeded Giorgio Ascarelli.

In fall of 1943, during the Allied invasion of Italy, American OSS officer Donald Downes describes requisitioning Lauro's strategically located palazzo:

Number 71 Via Francesco Crispi is a temple to essential Fascist vulgarity, and looks like nothing so much as a movie lobby in the gilded days of the opening of The Paramount in New York. The further you proceed from the circular foyer in green marble with the insignia of Lauro's fleet worked in the marble floor, the more institutionally ugly it becomes.[2]

After the end of World War II, following an initial participation in the Common Man's Front, he became active in the Italian monarchist movement led by Alfredo Covelli and financially supported the foundation of the Monarchist National Party (PNM), and was for a long time the mayor of Naples.

In 1972, he joined the neo-fascist party Italian Social Movement (MSI).[3] A square in the coastal town of Sorrento is named after him.

In the 2024 film Parthenope, a fictionalised version of Lauro was portrayed by Italian actor Alfonso Santagata.

Electoral history

Election House Constituency Party Votes Result
1953 Senate of the Republic Campania – Naples IV bgcolor="Template:Party color" | PNM 182,738 checkY Elected
1958 Chamber of Deputies Rome–Viterbo–Latina–Frosinone bgcolor="Template:Party color" | PMP 30,761 checkY Elected
1963 Chamber of Deputies Naples–Caserta bgcolor="Template:Party color" | PDIUM 60,574 checkY Elected
1968 Senate of the Republic Campania – Naples IV bgcolor="Template:Party color" | PDIUM 14,693 checkY Elected
1972 Chamber of Deputies Naples–Caserta bgcolor="Template:Party color" | MSI 108,101 checkY Elected
1976 Chamber of Deputies Naples–Caserta bgcolor="Template:Party color" | MSI 72,436 checkY Elected
1979 Chamber of Deputies Naples–Caserta bgcolor="Template:Party color" | DN 11,118 Template:Cross Not elected

References

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  1. ↑ Achille Lauro: perché il cantante ha il nome dello storico sindaco di Napoli, Fanpage
  2. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  3. ↑ David Broder: How Italy’s Far Right Fell in Love with the United States – An Interview with Gregorio Sorgonà, jacobin.com 29 July 2022.

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  • Achille Della Ragione. Achille Lauro superstar: la vita, l'impero, la leggenda. Napoli, 2003.
  • Serena Romano. Don Achille, 'o comandante. Milano, 1992.
  • Pietro Zullino. Il Comandante. Milano, 1976.

External links

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