Lio Lenzi

Lio Lenzi (13 November 1898 – 26 September 1960) was an Italian politician.

He was the first Mayor of Grosseto elected after the fall of fascism and the establishment of the Republic of Italy.

Life and career Lenzi was born in Livorno and participated at the foundation of the Italian Communist Party in 1921. For this reason he was beaten and severely injured by the fascists in 1937. He was one of the regulars at the workshop of the sculptor Ivo Pacini, a meeting place for antifascist intellectuals, artists, and writers, also exhibiting as a painter in some trade union exhibitions.

During World War II he joined the Resistance movement and established the Grosseto National Liberation Committee (CLN) in 1943 together with various local representatives of the other clandestine parties.

After the Allied invasion of Italy, Lenzi was appointed Mayor of Grosseto by the CLN with the approval of the Allied forces led in Grosseto by colonel R.A.B. Hamilton on 17 June 1944. He was confirmed Mayor of Grosseto on 27 March 1946 as the result of the first democratic elections held on 10 March.