Nadia Gallico Spano (2 June 1916 – 19 January 2006) was an Italian politician. She was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1946 as one of the first group of women parliamentarians in Italy. In 1948 she was elected to the

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, which she remained a member of until 1958.

Biography

Nadia Gallico was born in Tunis in 1916 to a family of Italian emigrants.Nadia Gallico Spano
Enciclopedia delle donne She was educated at a catholic school and later studied at the Faculty of Chemistry in Rome.Nadia Gallico Spano
Fondazione Archivio Diaristico Nazionale Back in Tunisia, she became involved in anti-fascist activities. In 1940 she married

Velio Spano Velio Spano (15 January 1905 – 7 October 1964) was a Sardinian-born Anti-fascism, antifascist activist and, at times, fighter through the Fascist Italy (1922–1943), Mussolini years. He is also remembered for his (mainly political) writings ...

, an Italian Communist Party (PCI) leader sent to Tunis to support the anti-fascists. The couple had two daughters, Paola and Chiara. Spano returned to Italy in October 1943, with Nadia following a few months later. Gallico Spano subsequently became involved in the women's section of the PCI and the '' Noi donne'' magazine. Following World War II she was amongst the founders of the . She was a PCI candidate in Rome in the

1946 elections The following elections occurred in the year 1946. Africa * French legislative election, November 1946 (French Equatorial Africa) * French legislative election, November 1946 (Guinea) * 1946–1947 Moyen-Congo Representative Council election * 194 ...

and was one of 21 women elected. Elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the

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and 1953 elections from Cagliari, she served in parliament until 1958, during which she had a third daughter, Francesca. She died in Rome in 2006 shortly after publishing her autobiography, ''Mabrúk''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gallico Spano, Nadia 1916 births Politicians from Tunis Italian Communist Party politicians Members of the Constituent Assembly of Italy Deputies of Legislature I of Italy Deputies of Legislature II of Italy 2006 deaths 20th-century Italian women politicians Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy)