Oddo Biasini (13 May 1917 – 8 July 2009) was an Italian politician. He was a partisan during the Second World War and a prominent member of the Italian Republican Party.

Oddo Biasini
Biasini in 1976
Minister of Cultural and Environmental Heritage
In office
4 April 1980 – 26 May 1981
Prime MinisterFrancesco Cossiga
Arnaldo Forlani
Preceded byEgidio Ariosto
Succeeded byVincenzo Scotti
Secretary of the Italian Republican Party
In office
1975–1979
Preceded byUgo La Malfa
Succeeded byGiovanni Spadolini
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
5 June 1968 – 1 July 1987
ConstituencyBologna
Personal details
Born(1917-05-13)13 May 1917
Cesena, Italy
Died8 July 2009(2009-07-08) (aged 92)
Cesena, Italy
Political partyItalian Republican Party
Children3
Alma materUniversity of Florence
ProfessionPolitician, teacher

Biography edit

Oddo Biasini graduated in letters at the University of Florence in 1940; in 1944 he was a republican partisan together with Libero Gualtieri and Osvaldo Abbondanza. After the war he worked as a teacher of Italian and Latin and was Principal of the scientific high school of Cesena from 1958 to 1968.

A trusted man of Ugo La Malfa, in the 70's he was elected national secretary of the Italian Republican Party. He was the chairman of his party's parliamentary group from 16 December 1974 to 24 February 1976 and from 15 July 1976 to 19 June 1979 and vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies from 1983 to 1987.

Between the end of the 60s and the beginning of the 70s he served as an Undersecretary for Public Education in the first (1968–69) and third Rumor Cabinet (1970) and in the Colombo Cabinet (1970–71).

He also served as a Minister of Cultural and Environmental Heritage from 1980 to 1981 in the Cossiga II Cabinet and Forlani Cabinet.

He died on 8 July 2009.[1]

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  • "Date personali e incarichi nella V legislatura".
  • "Incarichi nella VI legislatura".
  • "Incarichi nella VII legislatura".
  • "Incarichi nella VIII legislatura".
  • "Incarichi nella IX legislatura".