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Gaetano Pieraccini

Italian physician and politician (1864–1957)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ3757081 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gaetano Pieraccini (23 December 1864 – 13 April 1957) was an Italian physician and politician of the Italian Socialist Party and later the Italian Democratic Socialist Party. He served as a deputy in the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy and as a senator in the Italian Republic during the 1st legislature. He also was the first mayor of Florence after the liberation of the city in 1944.

Editorial summary

“Gaetano Pieraccini” enters the record as italian physician and politician (1864–1957). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gaetano, Pieraccini and Italian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1864, 1957, 1944—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1864-12-23. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gaetano, Pieraccini and Italian.
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Why this record matters

“Gaetano Pieraccini” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Gaetano, Pieraccini and Italian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3757081. VIAF identifies the subject as 12416507. The Library of Congress control number is n89644357. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1864, 1957 and 1944.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gaetano Pieraccini” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.