Quinto Quintieri
{{Short description|Italian engineer and banker (1894–1968)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image = Quinto Quintieri.jpg
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| office = Minister of Treasury and Finance
| primeminister = Pietro Badoglio
| predecessor = Guido Jung
| successor = Stefano Siglienti
| term_start = 22 April 1944
| term_end = 8 June 1944
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 12 August 1894
| birth_place = Sorrento, Kingdom of Italy
| death_date = {{death date and age|1968|12|23|1894|8|12|df=y}}
| death_place = Geneva, Switzerland
| restingplace =
| party = Italian Liberal Party
| alma_mater = University of Naples
| nationality = Italian
| occupation = {{ubl|Engineer|Banker}}
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Quinto Quintieri (12 August 1894 – 23 December 1968) was an Italian engineer and banker. He briefly served as the minister of treasury and finance in 1944 shortly after the end of the Fascist rule in Italy.
Early years and education
Quintieri was born in Sorrento on 12 August 1894.{{cite encyclopedia|author=Maria Gabriella Rienzo|title=Quintieri, Quinto |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/quinto-quintieri_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/|encyclopedia=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani |volume=86|year=2016|language=it}}{{cite news|title=Quinto Quintieri: l'ingegnere di Sorrento che ha dato radici campane alla Costituzione italiana|url=https://www.vesuviolive.it/cultura-napoletana/107006-quinto-quintieri-lingegnere-di-sorrento-che-ha-dato-radici-campane-alla-costituzione-italiana/|access-date=22 October 2022|work=Vesuvio|date=22 August 2015|language=it}} His family were from Carolei, a village in the Cosentino area. His father was a landowner and an academic who was the cofounder of the Bank of Calabria. He had four sisters. He received a degree in engineering from the University of Naples. Quintieri worked as a military instructor at the Academy of Turin during his studies in the period of World War I.
Career and activities
Following his graduation he worked at the Bank of Calabria and became its president after the death of his father. He was appointed minister of treasury and finance in the second Badoglio cabinet which lasted only 47 days between 22 April 1944 and 8 June 1944. He was one of the three Calabrian representatives in the government. The others were Fausto Gullo and Pietro Mancini.{{cite journal|author=Stavroula Pipyrou|title=Urbanities: Grecanici Migration to the City of Reggio Calabria, South Italy|journal=History and Anthropology|year=2010|volume=21|issue=1|page=23|doi=10.1080/02757201003647141|s2cid=144996934 }}
Quintieri started a newspaper entitled Il Giornale which folded in 1957 and a weekly La Libertà in June 1944. In 1944 he and another banker Raffaele Mattioli were assigned by Prime Minister Ivanoe Bonomi as the head of the Italian delegate which visited the USA for the potential economic support.{{cite journal|author=Leopoldo Nuti|title=An Overview of US-Italian Relations: The Legacy of the Past|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep39814|journal=Istituto Affari Internazionali|date=March 2022|issue=2
|page=4}} In 1946, Quintieri was elected as a member to the Constituent Assembly for the Italian Liberal Party.{{cite news|author1=Salvatore Esposito|title=Quinto Quintieri, un sorrentino tra i padri della Costituzione italiana|url=https://www.corsoitalianews.it/storia-locale-quinto-quintieri-un-sorrentino-tra-i-padri-della-costituzione-italiana/|access-date=22 October 2022|work=Corso Italia|date=21 August 2015|language=it}} He served there between 25 June 1946 and 31 January 1948. The assembly had the task of creating the Italian Constitution.
After retiring from politics in 1948 Quintieri resumed his post at the Bank of Calabria. He also became vice-president of Confindustria in 1949 and then president of the Union of Industrialists which included representations from the six countries of the European Coal and Steel Community.
Personal life and death
Quintieri settled in Switzerland in 1957. He remained unmarried and died in Geneva, Switzerland, on 23 December 1968.
=Honors=
Quintieri was awarded the Knights of Labor in 1958.{{cite news|author=Salvatore Foggiano|title=Uno dei padri della Costituzione nato a Sorrento: Quinto Quintieri|url=https://www.sorrentopost.com/ministro-costituente-quinto-quintieri-sorrento/|access-date=22 October 2022 |work=Sorrento Post|date=9 July 2014|language=it}}
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Category:20th-century Italian businesspeople
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