Rodolfo Morandi
{{Short description|Italian economist and politician (1902–1955)}}
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| office = Minister of Industry and Commerce
| primeminister = Alcide De Gasperi
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| term_start = 1946
| term_end = 1947
| birth_date = 30 July 1902
| birth_place = Milan, Italy
| death_date = {{death date and age|1955|7|26|1902|7|30|df=y}}
| death_place = Milan, Italy
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| party = Italian Socialist Party
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| nationality = Italian
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Rodolfo Morandi (30 July 1902 – 26 July 1955) was an Italian socialist politician and economist. He was a member of the Socialist Party and was one of its leading figures following World War II.{{cite journal
|author=Stephen P. Koff|author2=Sondra Z. Koff|title=Factionalism: Obstacle to Italian Socialist Unity |journal=The Indian Journal of Political Science|date=July–September 1973|volume=34|issue=3|page=263|jstor=41854580 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41854580}} He served as the minister of industry and commerce in the cabinets led by Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi in the period 1946–1947.
Biography
Morandi was born in Milan on 30 July 1902.{{cite web|title=Morandi, Rodolfo |url=https://biblio.toscana.it/catalogo/autore/morandi_rodolfo|publisher=Biblio Toscana|access-date=5 December 2021 |language=Italian}} He was arrested in Milan together with other 250 socialists in April 1937.{{cite journal|author=Spencer M. Di Scala|title=Resistance mythology |journal=Journal of Modern Italian Studies|date=1999 |volume=4|issue=1|page=68|doi=10.1080/13545719908454996|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/13545719908454996}}
In July 1946 he was appointed minister of industry and commerce to the cabinet formed by Alcide De Gasperi and remained in the office until May 1947.{{cite book|author= Spencer M. Di Scala
|title=Renewing Italian Socialism: Nenni to Craxi|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1988|isbn=978-0-19-536396-8| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c8gGaCQDLUsC&pg=PA41|page=41|location=Oxford}}{{cite thesis
|author1=David P. Palazzo|title=The "Social Factory" in Postwar Italian Radical Thought from Operaismo to Autonomia
|url=https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/262|page=25|degree=PhD|date=2014|location=City University of New York|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200316190610/https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/262/|archive-date=16 March 2020}} He served in the Italian Senate from 1948 and served as the general secretary of the Socialist Party.{{cite web|title=Rodolfo Morandi (Milano 1902 - 1955)
|url=https://www.museotorino.it/view/s/d92ae9bc48674522a2d432e9568a064f|publisher=Museo Torino|access-date=5 December 2021|archive-date=3 January 2021|language=Italian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103080139/https://www.museotorino.it/view/s/d92ae9bc48674522a2d432e9568a064f}} Within the party he was one of the leaders of the leftist faction, the others being Pietro Nenni and Lelio Basso.{{cite journal|author=Raphael Zariski|title=The Italian Socialist Party: A Case Study in Factional Conflict|journal=The American Political Science Review|date=June 1962|volume=56|issue=2|page=374 |doi=10.2307/1952373|jstor=1952373 |s2cid=145437028 |url=https://doi.org/10.2307/1952373}} The leftist faction left the party in 1960 and joined the Communist Party.
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