Giorgio Amendola

Giorgio Amendola was an Italian writer and politician. He is regarded and often cited as one of the main precursors of the Olive Tree. Born in Rome in 1907, Amendola was the son of Lithuanian intellectual Eva Kühn and Giovanni Amendola, a liberal anti-fascist who died in 1926 in Cannes after being attacked by killers hired by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. He secretly joined the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1929. After graduating in law, he started to promote opposition to the Mussolini regime.