Domenico Pittella (7 February 1932 – 15 April 2018) was an Italian politician. He was born on 7 February 1932 in

Lauria Lauria is a town and ''comune'' of the province of Potenza, in Basilicata, southern Italy, situated near the borders of Calabria. It is a walled, medieval town on the steep side of a hill, with another portion of municipal territory in the p ...

. Pittella was trained as a surgeon. A member of the

Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy, whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the longest-living parties of the country. Founded in Genoa in 1892, ...

, he served on the

Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

between 1972 and 1983. He fell and broke his hip on 14 February 2018, and died in Lauria, aged 86, on 15 April of complications from the injury. Pittella's sons Marcello and

Gianni Gianni is an Italian name (occasionally a surname), a short form of the Italian Giovanni and a cognate of John meaning God is gracious. Gianni is the most common diminutive of Giovanni in Italian. People with this given name * Gianni Agnelli (i ...

are also politicians.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pittella, Domenico 1932 births 2018 deaths People from Lauria Italian Socialist Party politicians Senators of Legislature VI of Italy Senators of Legislature VII of Italy Senators of Legislature VIII of Italy Politicians of Basilicata Italian surgeons