
Silvio Gava (25 April 1901 in Vittorio Veneto – 23 December 1999 in Rome) was an Italian politician who was one of the founders of the Christian Democracy Party.[1] He hailed from a family based in Naples.[2] He was a lawyer by profession.[3]
Gava became part of the Christian Democracy Party's national directorate in 1944.[4] He was elected to the Italian Senate in 1948.[4] He held several government posts for 13 times between 1948 and 1975, including minister of grace and justice, minister of treasury and minister of industry and commerce.[1][5] From 1969 to 1974 Gava was the head of Christian Democracy Party's senatorial group.[3]
Gava's son, Antonio Gava, was also a politician from the Christian Democracy Party and served in various ministerial posts.[3] Silvio Gava was the author of several books,[6] one of which is his memoirs published in 1999.[3]
References
- ^ a b Celso Costantini; Bruno Fabio Pighin (2014). The Secrets of a Vatican Cardinal: Celso Costantini's Wartime Diaries, 1938-1947. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 195. ISBN 978-0-7735-9006-9.
- ^ "Portrait of a Political Leader: Vincenzo Scotti". Raffaele Lauro. 7 May 2015. Archived from the original on 4 August 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
- ^ a b c d Felia Skyle Allum (March 2000). The Neapolitan Camorra: Crime and Politics in Post-war Naples (1950-92) (PhD thesis). Brunel University. hdl:2438/5085.
- ^ a b Judith Chubb (October 1980). "Naples Under the Left: The Limits of Local Change". Comparative Politics. 13 (1): 55. doi:10.2307/421763. JSTOR 421763.
- ^ Roberta Cristin (2019). Legislature V of Italy and Andreotti I Cabinet (MA thesis). LUISS.
- ^ "Gava, Silvio 1901-". WorldCat Identities. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
External links
Media related to Silvio Gava at Wikimedia Commons
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