Giuseppe Sotgiu
Italian lawyer and politician (1902–1980)
Giuseppe Sotgiu (9 April 1902 – 18 May 1980) was an Italian lawyer, jurist and politician.
Early life and career
Giuseppe was the son of Antonio Sotgiu, who was the socialist mayor of Olbia between 1906 and 1910. Giuseppe was the older brother of Girolamo Sotgiu, a prominent Sardinian regional representative of the Italian Communist Party and Dante Sotgiu, mayor of Terni.
In December 1922 Giuseppe moved to Rome to attend high school, and he stayed there for the rest of his life. Also in December 1922, in Olbia, his father was beaten and forced to drink castor oil to “purge” him by fascist squads who had come specially from Civitavecchia. During the fascist period, Giuseppe dedicated himself to the legal profession and to the publication of legal texts.
In 1945 he was appointed to the National Council; he later stood unsuccessfully for election to the Constituent Assembly as a candidate on the Labour Democratic Party. In the same year, together with Mario Berlinguer, he was one of the founders of the magazine Sardegna. Between 1947 and 1950 he was President of the Legal Commission of the Automobile Club d'Italia. In 1949 Sotgiu was initiated into the Roman Masonic lodge Lira e spada, affiliated to the Grand Orient of Italy, and became a master mason in 1952.
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