Oddo Biasini

Oddo Biasini OMRI
Biasini in 1976
Minister of Cultural and Environmental Heritage
In office 4 April 1980 – 28 June 1981
Prime Minister	Francesco Cossiga Arnaldo Forlani
Preceded by	Egidio Ariosto
Succeeded by	Vincenzo Scotti
Secretary of the Italian Republican Party
In office February 1975 – September 1979
Preceded by	Ugo La Malfa
Succeeded by	Giovanni Spadolini
In office January 1964 – April 1965
Preceded by	Oronzo Reale
Succeeded by	Ugo La Malfa
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 5 June 1968 – 1 July 1987
Constituency	Bologna
Personal details
Born	(1917-05-13)13 May 1917 Cesena, Italy
Died	8 July 2009(2009-07-08) (aged 92) Cesena, Italy
Political party	Italian Republican Party
Children	3
Alma mater	University of Florence
Profession	Politician, teacher

Oddo Biasini (13 May 1917 – 8 July 2009) was an Italian politician. He was a partisan during the Second World War and a prominent member of the Italian Republican Party.

Biography

Biasini graduated in letters at the University of Florence in 1940; in 1944 he was a republican partisan together with Libero Gualtieri and Osvaldo Abbondanza. After the war he worked as a teacher of Italian and Latin and was principal of the scientific high school of Cesena from 1958 to 1968.

A trusted man of Ugo La Malfa, in the 1970s he was elected national secretary of the Italian Republican Party. He was the chairman of his party's parliamentary group from 16 December 1974 to 24 February 1976 and from 15 July 1976 to 19 June 1979 and vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies from 1983 to 1987.

Between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, he served as an undersecretary for public education in the first (1968–69) and third Rumor Cabinet (1970) and in the Colombo Cabinet (1970–71).

He also served as a minister of cultural and environmental heritage from 1980 to 1981 in the Cossiga II Cabinet and Forlani Cabinet.

He died on 8 July 2009.

Electoral history

Election	House	Constituency	Party		Votes	Result
1968	Chamber of Deputies	Bologna–Ferrara–Ravenna–Forlì		PRI	12,557	Y Elected
1972	Chamber of Deputies	Bologna–Ferrara–Ravenna–Forlì		PRI	16,404	Y Elected
1976	Chamber of Deputies	Bologna–Ferrara–Ravenna–Forlì		PRI	17,957	Y Elected
1979	Chamber of Deputies	Bologna–Ferrara–Ravenna–Forlì		PRI	16,830	Y Elected
1983	Chamber of Deputies	Bologna–Ferrara–Ravenna–Forlì		PRI	11,458	Y Elected

Honours and awards

• Italy: Grand Cross Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (12 December 1993)
• Italy: Gold Medal for the Meritorious of Culture and Art (5 August 1983)
• Italy: Gold Medal for the Meritorious of the School of Culture and Art (31 July 1973)

External links

• "Date personali e incarichi nella V legislatura".
• "Incarichi nella VI legislatura".
• "Incarichi nella VII legislatura".
• "Incarichi nella VIII legislatura".
• "Incarichi nella IX legislatura".