Loretta Montemaggi

Loretta Montemaggi (11 May 1930 – 17 January 2007) was an Italian politician who served as a member of the Regional Council of Tuscany (1970–1985) and president of the same council (1975–1983).

Life and career Loretta Montemaggi was born in Poggibonsi to Inigo Montemaggi and Caterina Bardotti. Following her family's relocation to Pontassieve in 1939, her father was employed at the Del Vivo glassworks. Raised in an antifascist environment, during the war years she came into contact with writings on communism. During the conflict, she was displaced to Volognano and, clandestinely, expressed her intention to join the Italian Communist Party (PCI), obtaining her membership card in 1944 at only fourteen years of age, becoming the youngest member of the Florence Federation.

In 1954, she married Silvano Sandonnini and had a daughter, Mirella, in 1956.

Montemaggi died in Florence on 17 January 2007.