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Biography of Achille Lauro
Name: Achille Lauro
Birth Date: June 16, 1887
Death Date: 1984
Place of Birth: Piano di Sorrento, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: businessman, politician
Achille Lauro
Achille Lauro (1887-1984), II Comandante (The Commander), had a rich business and political life. His fleet of ocean going vessels was spread over the waters of the world for 50 years. He was a deputy in the Italian parliament and mayor and political boss of Naples.Achille Lauro was born in Piano di Sorrento (near Naples) on June 16, 1887, to a sea-faring family. As a youngster his father sent him on transatlantic trips on sailboats that he owned. When Achille was 20 his father died, leaving him in charge of the family--his mother and three sisters--three sailboats, and a huge debt. He managed to stay solvent until the beginning of World War I when the government requisitioned his sailboats and eventually lost them.When the war ended, Achille Lauro was without money and without boats. His strategy was to create a company with limited participation (societa in accomandita) by having all his …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…power in Naples. He took the reins of the business from his sons who, he felt, mismanaged it. Upon the death of his wife of a half century, in 1973 he married a 35 year old would-be actress and tried to restructure the future of his newspapers. Until the end Achille Lauro remained the supreme master of the fleet, the Commander of a greedy family and of the people that alternately adored and hated him. Further Reading The best sources on Achille Lauro are in Italian: Pietro Zullino, II Comandante (The Commander) (Milan, 1976); Perey Allum, Potere e societa a Napoli nel dopaguerra (Power and Society in Postwar Naples) (Turin, 1975); Achille Lauro, La mia vita e la mia battaglia (My Life and My Battles) (Naples, 1958); Francesco Compagna, Lauro e la Democrazia Cristiana (Lauro and the Christian Democrats) (Naples, 1960); and Centro Studi Leanardo da Vinci, Achille Lauro, Scritti e Discorsi (Writings and Speeches) (Rome, 1958).
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