Marcello Soleri
Italian politician (1882–1945)
Marcello Soleri (28 April 1882 – 22 July 1945) was an Italian politician and an officer of the prestigious Alpini infantry corps. He is widely viewed as one of the leading exponents of political liberalism in 20th-century Italy. Soleri was a Member of Parliament between 1913 and 1929. During 1921/22, he served successively as Italian Minister of Finance and more briefly as Italian Minister of War. After the fall of Mussolini, he returned to government in 1944 as Italian Minister of Treasury under Prime Minister Ivanoe Bonomi.
Life
Provenance and early years
Marcello Soleri was born at Cuneo, a mid-sized town in the hill country between Turin and the sea. He was the younger, by two years, of his parents' two sons. Modesto Soleri (1847–1898),
his father, came originally from the little town of Dronero, and had become the chief engineer of the province of Cuneo. Modesto Soleri, who had become involved in politics at a municipal level, had been a friend since their school days together of Edmondo de Amicis, with whose evolving "Christian-liberal-socialist" beliefs he was (albeit less stridently than his friend) in sympathy. In 1894, during a period of heightened government nervousness, Modesto Soleri was briefly imprisoned for suspected socialist conspiracy.
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