Tullio Benedetti

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He was a member of the Kingdom of Italy for two legislatures, and of the National Consultation, and was President of the Italian Monarchical Union during the election campaign for the referendum on 2 June 1946 and was elected to the Constituent Assembly. He was later elected to the Senate of the Italian Republic in the I Legislature.

Biography

The origins

Born from a family of modest origins, composed by the tailor Vittorio Benedetti and Alberta Del Grosso, in youth, after attending the Technical Institute of Florence and the University of Pisa, as a student obtained a scholarship from the Opera Pia Galeotti di Pescia, thanks to which he had the opportunity to move to Belgium, where, in August 1907, he graduated in electrical engineering at the University of Liege.

Secretary of Ferdinando Martini

On his return to Italy, in 1908, the Roman company Unione Esercizi Elettrici, who then managed part of the electricity in Tuscany, commissioned him to run two plants in northern Italy and, thanks to the Florentine Ferdinando Martini, then outgoing governor of Eritrea, also managed to design the birth of a Society for Electric Enterprises of Valdinievole.

After the election of 1909, during which he was secretary of the electoral committee of Martini, he appointed him his special secretary. In the administrative elections of 1911 he was a promoter of the Monarchic Liberal Union and used the Gazzetta di Valdinievole, a liberal-monarchical electoral periodical founded in late 1910, as a means of personal propaganda.

Local political benedicts

As four years earlier, even at the political elections of 1913, he served as secretary of the electoral committee of Martini, but later, in the administrative elections of 1914, Martini's liberals were involved in an electoral alliance with those led by Benedetti. Alliance that had been channelled by the local monarchist electoral committee.

Thanks to it, Benedetti was elected to the provincial council of Lucca. In 1915, just before the war of Italy, he joined the Civil Assistance Committee in time of war, for the coordination of the war effort of the municipality of Pescia, his native country, born in order to “integrate the work of the government in aid to the families of the recalled”.

Also thanks to Martini, who had become, in the meantime, Minister of the colonies in the governments Salandra I and II, Benedetti managed to enter the Italian Colonial Syndicate (Sincolit), a financial company of which the Banco di Roma was the main shareholder and that had been founded at the end of 1916 between Rome and Tripoli to favor the Italian interests in the colonies and treat the activities of the BdR in Libya. He entered it with control functions, after being called back to arms.

The break with Martini

A little by little, however, the relations with Martini began to deteriorate, going to feed, consequently, a series of tenses