A closer look
Achilles Fish: at a glance
Achilles Fish (Predosa, 8 February 1919 – Turin, 24 June 1978) was an Italian journalist, politician and communist intellectual.
From the end of the war to death, he survived improvised, carried out politically militant journalist activities in the left. In the country of birth he was a municipal councillor (1975-1978), favoring the establishment of a civic library that, once established, was after his death named him.
Biography
Born in Predosa, in the province of Alessandria on 8 February 1919, he studied in Alexandria where he obtained his classical maturity. He enrolls in Architecture at the Polytechnic of...Explore this chapter
Born in Predosa, in province of Alessandria on 8 February 1919, he studied at Alessandria where the classical maturity follows. He enrolls in Architecture at the Politecnico di Torino. Called to the military service follows first the sub-official course in Casale and then the official one in Pavia.
On September 8, 1943, he survived while being licensed in Predosa, then joined a partisan group. Persecuted by military justice, accused of desertion and is sentenced to death in contumacia.
Immediately after the end of the war he moved to Genoa, joined Unity as a journalist and remained there until the events of Hungary (October 1956) following which he resigned from the Italian Communist Party and then from the newspaper.
While his passion for humanities had led him to graduate in ancient Letters at the University of Genoa where he became Assistant Professor Francesco Della Corte at the Latin Literature course, then professor Enzo Marmorale at the Institute of Magisterium.
He switches to the Mercantile Corriere of Genoa, but his collaboration with this newspaper is not very long because the pro-government position of the warhead at the time of the Tambroni Government (1960) is ideologically incompatible.
He continues the journalistic profession to the independent Milanese newspaper on the left tonight.
At the death of Mattei, president of ENI, remains unemployed; later he finds work at Momento Sera, a Roman newspaper, and moves to Rome with his family.
The beginning of the sixty-eight sees it in La Stampa di Torino where it will remain until the death that survives sudden on June 24, 1978 at the age of 59.
It leaves the memory of a lively figure of intellectual, of deep communist faith animated, according to conscience, by a penetrating vis criticism.
Biographies portal: access Wikipedia entries dealing with biographiesContinue your journey