Franco Restivo
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Franco Restivo (25 May 1911 – 17 April 1976) was an Italian politician.
Biography
Franco Restivo was son of Empedocle Restivo, a jurist and national deputy.[1] He studied law at the University of Palermo and in 1943 he became a professor of constitutional law at the Faculty of Law of the Sicilian university; later teaching public law at the Faculty of economics and commerce of the same university.
He was member of the Constituent Assembly between 1946 and 1947, of the Sicilian Regional Assembly between 1947 and 1958, and a national Deputy from 1958 until his death.
Between 1949 and 1955 he served as President of the Sicilian Region. After his return to national politics, he also served as a Minister of Agricolture (Moro III Cabinet), as Minister of the Interior (Leone II Cabinet, Rumor I Cabinet, Rumor II Cabinet, Rumor III Cabinet and Colombo Cabinet), and as Minister of Defence (Andreotti I Cabinet).[2]
During the period in which he held the dicastery of the Interior, Restivo faced a situation of serious deterioration of public order, the massacre of Piazza Fontana, worsening of common and mafia crime, youth protestsand political terrorism.
Death
Franco Restivo died 17 April 1976, a few months before the end of the VI Legislature.
In popular culture
Restivo is portrayed by Fabrizio Bentivoglio in the 2020 film Rose Island.[3]
Honors and awards
- Chancellor and Treasurer of the Military Order of Italy (17 February 1972 – 26 June 1972)
- Grand Cross of Merit with German Order of Merit Plaque (1957)
References
External links
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- ↑ Restivo, politico ritrovato
- ↑ Treccani.it
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- 1911 births
- 1976 deaths
- Presidents of Sicily
- Politicians from Palermo
- Ministers of the interior of Italy
- Christian Democracy (Italy) politicians
- Ministers of defence of Italy
- Members of the Constituent Assembly of Italy
- Deputies of Legislature III of Italy
- Deputies of Legislature IV of Italy
- Deputies of Legislature V of Italy
- Deputies of Legislature VI of Italy
- Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- University of Palermo alumni