Camilla Ravera

Camilla Ravera ( born June 18, 1889 in Acqui Terme, † September 18, 1988 in Rome) was an Italian politician. She was appointed as the first woman senator for life in 1982.

Life

Ravera was the daughter of an official of the Treasury and had seven brothers. She first worked as a teacher in Turin and joined in 1918 the Partito Socialista Italiano. Between 1919 and 1920 Ravera was a member of the editorial board of the journal L' Ordine Nuovo.

In 1921, Ravera was one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and has been delegated to various congresses of the Communist International, where she met Lenin and Stalin. After the arrest of Gramsci in 1926 she was the only member of the Politburo of the PCI, which could be active in the underground. In 1930 Ravera was arrested and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Five years were spent in a prison cell in Trani; the other years she was banished to Ponza and Ventotene.

In 1939, Ravera took a stance against the German -Soviet non-aggression pact and was excluded along with Umberto Terracini from the Communist Party of Italy. In 1945, she was again admitted to the Party and was elected a member of the Central Committee.

Between 1948 and 1958 she was a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. On January 8, 1982 Camilla Ravera was appointed by Alessandro Pertini senator for life. So she was the first woman who took this position.

• PCI Member
• Member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Italy)
• Senator (Italy )
• Born in 1889
• Died in 1988
• Italian
• Woman