Alberto Cianca

Alberto Cianca (1 January 1884 – 8 January 1966) was an Italian journalist and anti-fascist politician. He edited several significant publications, including Il Mondo, and served in the Parliament and Senate.

Early life and education Cianca was born in Rome on 1 January 1884.

Career Cianca started his career as a journalist and worked as a parliamentary reporter for the Rome-based newspaper La Tribuna. The paper was the most significant opposition publication against Fascist government of Benito Mussolini. Cianca also edited another anti-fascist publication, Il Becco Giallo, a weekly satirical magazine. In the establishment of the Giustizia e Libertà he collaborated with Carlo Rosselli, Nello Rosselli, Emilio Lussu, Alberto Tarchiani, Fausto Nitti and Gaetano Salvemini. Cianca managed to resume the publication of Il Becco Giallo in Paris, and also, he and Carlo Rosselli edited a weekly publication of Giustizia e Libertà which was also entitled Giustizia e Libertà. In fact, Rosselli was the editor of the weekly between 1934 and his death in 1937, and Cianca succeeded him in the post. There he met his future wife, Carol Lunetta Cianca. Alberto Cianca and his close ally Alberto Tarchiani were very active in the society dealing with its administrative operations.

Later years and death Upon his return to Italy Cianca became the leader of the Action Party (PdA). He was a member of the National Council and a minister in the first cabinet of Alcide De Gasperi. Cianca was among the few elected members of the Action Party to the Constituent Assembly in 1946 and also, the last secretary of the Action Party before its closure. Then Cianca joined the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and was elected a senator on its lists in the elections in 1953 and 1958.

Cianca served several times as the president of the board of arbitrators of Italian journalists. He died in Rome on 8 January 1966.