Francesco Compagna

Francesco Compagna (Naples, 31 July 31 1921 – Capri, 24 July 24 1982) was an Italian politician, journalist and academic.

Francesco Compagna

He founded the magazine "Nord e Sud" in 1954 and also collaborated with Il Mondo directed by Mario Pannunzio.

Former member of the Italian Liberal Party and the Radical Party, Compagna was elected MP with the Italian Republican Party in the fifth (1968–1972), sixth (1972–1976), seventh (1976–1979) and eighth (1979–1983) legislature.

He served as Minister of Public Works in the Andreotti V (1979) and in the Cossiga II (1980) governments and as Minister of Merchant Navy in the Forlani government (1980–1981).

He also held the position of Undersecretary of State for Extraordinary Interventions in Southern Italy in the Moro IV government (1974–1976) and of Secretary of the Council of Ministers in the Spadolini I government (1981–1982).

He died on Capri in 1982 due to a heart attack.

Publications

A principally political writer, he published the following volumes:

  • Labirinto meridionale, Edizioni Neri Pozza
  • I terroni in città, Edizioni Laterza
  • L'Europa delle regioni, ESI-Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane
  • La politica delle città, Laterza
  • Le regioni più deboli, Etas-Kompass
  • Meridionalismo liberale, Riccardo Ricciardi editore
  • Il Mezzogiorno nella crisi, Edizioni della Voce.
  • Mezzogiorno in salita, Editoriale Nuova
  • "Biografia Treccani di Francesco Compagna".
  • Biscione, Francesco M. (1982). "COMPAGNA, Francesco". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI) (in Italian). 27. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.
  • "Ottavio Lucarelli, Napoli ricorda Compagna ma la famiglia non partecipa, in La Repubblica.it, 26 maggio 2002".
Preceded by
Gaetano Stammati		 Minister of Public Works of Italy
March–August 1979		 Succeeded by
Franco Nicolazzi
Preceded by
Franco Nicolazzi		 Minister of Public Works of Italy
April–October 1980		 Succeeded by
Franco Nicolazzi
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