A senator for life is a member of the Italian Senate appointed by the President of the Italian Republic "for outstanding merits in the social, scientific, artistic or literary field". Former Presidents of the Republic are ex officio life senators. As of 2006, there are seven of them. The Italian Senate (Italian: Senato della Repubblica, Senate of the Republic) is the upper house of the Parliament of Italy. ... Flag of the President of the Italian Republic This is the list of Presidents of the Italian Republic with the title Presidente della Repubblica since 1948. ... 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

List of Italian life senators

Those currently in office are bolded.

Giovanni Agnelli, better known as Gianni Agnelli (March 12, 1921 – January 24, 2003), was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat. ... Giulio Andreotti Giulio Andreotti (born in Rome, 14 January 1919) is an Italian political figure, among the most powerful in post-war Italy. ... Carlo Bo (1901-2001, Genua) was a professor and Life senator of Italy (since 1984). ... Norberto Bobbio (October 18, 1909 – January 9, 2004) was an Italian philosopher of law and political sciences and an historian of political thought. ... Guido Castelnuovo (14 August 1865, Venice – 27 April 1952, Rome) was an Italian Jewish mathematician. ... Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (born in Livorno, 9 December 1920) was elected as the tenth President of the Italian Republic on May 13, 1999. ... Emilio Colombo (born April 14, 1920) was an Italian diplomat and politician. ... Francesco Cossiga (born July 26, 1928) is an Italian politician and former President of the Italian Republic. ... Eduardo De Filippo was an actor, playwright, screenwriter, author and poet born May 24, 1900 in Naples, Italy and passed away on October 31, 1984 in Rome. ... Enrico De Nicola (Naples, November 9, 1877 - Torre del Greco, Naples, October 1, 1959) was an Italian jurist, journalist, politician, and the first provisional Head of State of the newborn republic in 1946-1948. ... Luigi Einaudi (1874 - 1961) was an Italian political figure. ... Amintore Fanfani (6 February 1908 - 20 November 1999) was an Italian politician and Prime Minister. ... Giovanni Gronchi (September 10, 1887–October 17, 1978) was an Italian politician who became the second President of the Italian Republic in 1955, after Luigi Einaudi. ... Giovanni Leone Giovanni Leone (Naples, November 3, 1908 - November 9, 2001) was Prime Minister of Italy from June 21, 1963 to November 5, 1963 and again from June 24, 1968 to November 19, 1968. ... Rita Levi Montalcini. ... Mario Luzi (20 October 1914 – 28 February 2005) was an Italian poet. ... Cesare Merzagora (Milan, November 9, 1898 - Rome, May 1, 1991) was an Italian politician. ... Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale (October 12, 1896, Genoa – September 12, 1981, Milan) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and traslator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. ... Giorgio Napolitano (born June 29, 1925 in Naples), an Italian politician and lifetime Senator is the president-elect of the Italian Republic. ... Pietro Sandro Nenni (Faenza, February 9, 1891 - Rome, January 1, 1980) was an Italian politician. ... Ferruccio Parri (January 19, 1890 - December 8, 1981), Pinerolo, Piedmont was an Italian politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy for several months in 1945. ... Alessandro (Sandro) Pertini (September 25, 1896 - February 24, Italian politician. ... Sergio Pininfarina is a famed automobile designer, like his father, Battista Pininfarina. ... Giuseppe Saragat Giuseppe Saragat (1898 - 1988) was the foreign minister of Italy from 1963 to 1964, and the President of the Italian Republic from 1964 to 1971. ... Antonio Segni (February 2, 1891, Sassari - December 1, 1972) was twice Prime Minister of Italy (1955-1957, and again 1959-1960). ... Giovanni Spadolini (Florence, June 21, 1925-[august 6[1994]]) was a liberal Italian politician, member of Italian Republican Party (PRI), who served as Prime Minister of Italy from 1981-1982, the first in the 1st Republic not from Christian Democracy. ... Don Luigi Sturzo (Caltagirone, Italy, 26. ... Paolo Emilio Taviani is an Italian politician. ... Arturo Toscanini (March 25, 1867, Parma, Emilia-Romagna – January 16, 1957, New York City) was an Italian musician. ...

Notes

1. ^ Leone was life senator from 1967 to 1971 by appointment and from 1978 to his death (2001) ex officio, as former president.
2. ^ Napolitano was senator for life before becoming president
3. ^ Toscanini was appointed on 5 December 1949, but declined the next day.

December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ...

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