Vittorio Foa

Vittorio Foa was an Italian politician, trade unionist, journalist, and writer who was one of the founding fathers of the Italian Republic and a key figure of the political left. A libertarian and liberal socialist of the non-communist Italian left, he took part to the Italian Resistance against fascism and in the post-war years was a member of the Constituent Assembly of Italy from 1946 to 1948. As a member of several socialist parties, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies from 1953 and 1968 and to the Senate of the Republic from 1987 to 1992.