Carlo Bernini

Carlo Bernini (6 May 1936 – 1 January 2011) was an Italian academic, politician and businessman. Being a member of the Christian Democracy (DC) he served at the Italian Senate between 1992 and 1994 and was the minister of transport in the period 1989–1992.

Biography Bernini was born in Bondeno, Ferrara, on 6 May 1936. In 1952 he joined the DC. He was a professor of transport economics and worked at the faculty of political science of the University of Padua. Bernini was elected to the Italian Senate in 1992 and served there until 1994. The company went bankrupt in 2009.

Bernini was married to Angela Bernini and had three children. In Summer 2010 he was hospitalized following a heart attack and died in a retirement home in Castelfranco Veneto on the New Year's Day of 2011.