Tomba di Ferruccio Parri al cimitero di Genova (Liguria) – Crediti: Ferruccio Parri
We are in front of Ferruccio Parri’s Tomb
In 1981 Ferruccio Parri was buried in the monumental cemetery of Staglieno, not far from Giuseppe Mazzini.
Ferruccio Parri (1890-1981) was one of the main figures of twentieth century Italian history. A literature teacher and journalist, he was decorated during the Great War. As an anti-fascist, he played a leading role in Turati’s escape to France, for which he was exiled to Ustica. A manager at Edison, he was one of the driving forces behind the Giustizia e Libertà (Justice and Liberty) movement in Italy. During the Resistance, under nom de guerre ‘Maurizio’, he was the leader of the Action Party within the National Liberation Committee for Northern Italy and Vice-Commander of the Liberation Volunteer Corps (CVL).
In 1945, he became the first Prime Minister of free Italy. A constituent member and senator, he was a member of the Republican Party, Popular Unity, and the Socialist Party. In 1949 he founded the Italian Federation of Partisan Associations (Fiap), and the Institute for the History of the Liberation Movement in Italy, which today bears his name and is based at the Casa della Memoria in Milan. Founder and editor of the magazine Astrolabe, he was the leader of the Independent Left and one of the most ardent opponents of neo-fascism.
Parri died in 1981 and is buried in Genoa. The design of Genoa’s Monumental Cemetery was started in 1835 by Carlo Barabino and, after his death from cholera, completed by his apprentice Giovanni Battista Resasco. It was then constructed in Staglieno, in the Bisagno valley, in the IV Municipality of Genoa. Work began in 1844 and the building was opened in 1851. After several extensions, it today comprises an area of about 330,000 square metres, and includes English, Protestant and Jewish cemeteries. It has been visited and appreciated by Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde and Ernest Hemingway.
It houses some of the great figures of Italian history, from Giovanni Ansaldo to Giuseppe Mazzini, from Nino Bixio to Caterina Campodonico, from Aldo Gastaldi to Guido Rossa; and more recently Annamaria Ortese, Fabrizio De Andrè, Fernanda Pivano, Edoardo Sanguineti. Parri’s tomb is in the irregular grove, not far from Mazzini’s.
Facility or museum: no
Geographic location: Genoa, Liguria