"Pietro Nenni Portfolio cover" [NMLH.2022.134]

Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.134

Object Name
Poster

Title
Pietro Nenni Portfolio cover

People
Pietro Nenni

Date
1991

Description
Large white portfolio cover. The front of this cover has a red flag above italicised writing saying "nenni." Underneath this it says "Pietro Nenni Protagonista e testimone di un secolo. 1891.1991." This text is in Italian and translates to "hero and witness of a century." Pietro Sandro Nenni was an Italian socialist politician, the national secretary of the Italian Socialist Party and lifetime Senator since 1970. He was a recipient of the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951. He was one of the founders of the Italian Republic and a central figure of the Italian left from the 1920s to the 1960s. He lived in exile from 1926 in Paris, during this time he made a contribution to the survival of the Italian Socialist Party.