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Biography of Vittorio Emmanuele Orlando
Name: Vittorio Emmanuele Orlando
Birth Date: May 19, 1860
Death Date: December 1, 1952
Place of Birth: Palermo, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: statesman
Vittorio Emmanuele Orlando
The Italian statesman Vittorio Emmanuele Orlando (1860-1952) was the leader of the Italian delegation to the Paris peace talks after World War I and an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of the Italian Republic.Vittorio Orlando was born in Palermo on May 19, 1860. His long career in politics brought him into the limelight of national and world affairs, although he played no more than a minor role in the shaping of contemporary history. On the other hand, his career illustrates certain tendencies in Italian politics which are worthy of mention.Since the unification of Italy there has been a marked tendency for middle-class and intellectual southern Italians to seek an outlet for their ambitions in national government service. Until very recently the rural and impoverished Mezzogiorno region offered pitifully few opportunities for its educated stratum to rise. Quite naturally, once established in Rome, the despised Sicilian or Calabrese politician might well wish …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…opposition to Mussolini; but the elections were easily rigged by the Fascists and there were soon no meaningful elections to contest. Orlando then withdrew from politics.Following World War II, Orlando joined the group of old-line politicians who were attempting, with mixed success, to play a renewed role in the politics of the republic. First as president of the 1946 Constituent Assembly, then as senator, Orlando seemed to have made the transition with marked success. But in 1948 he was defeated by Luigi Einaudi in his bid to become first president of the republic; and he died in Rome only a few years later, on Dec. 1, 1952. Associated Events World War I, 1914-1918 Further Reading For a discussion of Orlando's career and its political and social background see Denis Mack Smith, Italy: A Modern History (rev. ed. 1969), and A. William Salomone, ed., Italy from the Risorgimento to Fascism (1970), which has an especially useful bibliography.
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