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WHO WAS ENRICO MINIO AND 'THE LIBRARY HEADED

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Minio Henry: a man is not passed in vain. Press Viterbo Province on the occasion of the centenary of his birth.


ENRICO MINIO was born in Civita Castellana the May 4, 1906. Was a worker potter. He joined the Party communist in Turin where he had gone to perform the technical studies. He went quickly into contact with some young communists such as Teresa Noce, Alfonso Leonetti, Erasmus beams, and Raffaele Cesare Dumini Tornaquinci. With them gave birth to the fortnightly Voice of Youth, but was arrested, still seventeen, for subversive propaganda against the state security. Over the following years, more arrests, but did not fail to cooperate in underground newspapers such Portolongone, The Hammer and Awakening.
In Naples, where he had since become secretary of the Communist Party youth office XV, Minio was arrested, with with G. Sanna, and condemned by the Special Court to 12 years imprisonment. It was June 1927.
in 1930 refused to sign the request for a pardon that was sent by his family. He served the sentence in Oneglia and Sulmona, and then in 1934, after commutation of the sentence to three years of supervised release, he moved back to Civita Castellana.
In 1935, when Mussolini was preparing the war against Abyssinia, Minium, with other comrades, he managed to produce a newspaper that was called Unity, which came out six or seven numbers from February to August, devoted almost entirely to war. He was again arrested with four companions and, as head of Communist activities and propaganda in the press, was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment, perpetual disqualification to public offices and probation. Confined in the prison of Castelfranco Emilia was then transferred first to Rome, Civitavecchia and then, April 1, 1939, the sanatorium of judicial Pianosa.
freed after the fall of fascism, became a consultant for National Minium, then deputy to the Constituent Assembly, Senators by right in I and II in the Legislature and the Republican senator elected in the III and IV Legislature.
In 1949 he became mayor of Civita Castellana, after facing the plight successive bombing in Togliatti. In fact, in July of '48 in Civita Castellana, during a popular event, the policeman had been killed Minolfo Masci. Even today, the circumstances of the serious incident have not been clarified. The investigation did not lead to the discovery of the perpetrator. Repression, however, was tough, since a large number of workers and leaders of the Communist Party were imprisoned, so that the factories were deprived of labor with serious consequences for the city's economy.
Enrico Minio remained the most prominent figure in Civita Castellana since the war to date, the most popular mayor. It was equipped with a certain charisma, especially that he also had respect for political opponents. Besides the gift of good administrator also united to a person of great culture. One who had made themselves, so diligently that he spoke German, learned during the long years of imprisonment in order to better approach the great works of philosophy and German politics. During a speech to the Chamber of Deputies, Enrico De Nicola, the first president of the Republic, was so impressed by his polished language that addressing Umberto Terracini (other constituents) at his side, asked, "Who is this member?" It is a working-class ceramist, Mr. President. "promptly answered Terracini.
Enrico Minio died in Rome February 21, 1973. To leave chose suicide. He did not have the strength, we believe, to address the political marginalization successor to years and years of hard work and reputation both at national and local level. Perhaps, as happened to the writer Primo Levi, to a certain age come forward the ghosts of long years of segregation, and the "privilege" to be escaped slowly becomes a fault.

Alfredo Romano

Bibliography. Enrico Minio worker potter. Stories about the life of a fascist . By Louis Cimarra. Viterbo, Provincial Administration, 1985.