John Amendola is one of the most illustrious figures of the first anti-fascism, which opposed Mussolini’s power. He died as a result of the sticks of a team, he is dedicated the most important square of Salerno, in which he was elected deputy.
1882
1926
Anti-fascist policy, journalist
John Amendolais the hero and martyr of antifascism Salernitano. The square is dedicated to him in front of the Municipality and a statue.
Born in Naples from a family native to Sarno in the province of Salerno, and his political career led him to the election in the College of Mercato San Severino and then Salerno.
He began his career asjournalist, collaborating first with Vove di Pricelini and then with Corriere della Sera, with whose director Albertini built a friendship relationship. When the war broke out, he fought on the Isonzo, earning a bronze medal.
The war endedtempts academic career, continues journalism,but his vocation was politics. He was elected to the House first in 1919 and then in 1921,as liberal with vice-versa positions to those of Francesco Saverio Nitti, and in the Facta Government of 1922 he became Minister of the Colonies. We are in the year of the March on Rome and Amendola is among those who unnecessarily ask the King to proclaim the state of siege and block the advance of the fascist militias. Thus begins his anti-fascist battle, both from the benches of Parliament and from the forum of the World, the newspaper he founded.
Subfor his oppositionThree aggressionsby the fascist teammates, the first and second in Rome, where he is seriously injured. But it does not bend and is one of the animators of the Aventine, the boycott of parliamentary work by anti-fascist deputies after the attack on Matteotti.
But in July 1925 near Montecatini – where he had participated in a political meeting – he was given a real ambush: wounded again with chiodate bats, refuge in France and died there in 1926 after a difficult surgery due to the consequences of the last plague.
One of the children, Giorgio, will join the Communist Party of which will become one of the highest national leaders, tied to Salerno, city in which he will be elected several times to the Chamber.
