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Senatore Lamberto Dini
Prime Minister of Italy
In office 17 January 1995 – 17 May 1996
President	Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
Preceded by	Silvio Berlusconi
Succeeded by	Romano Prodi
Italian Minister of Justice
In office October 19, 1995 – February 16, 1996
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	Filippo Mancuso
Succeeded by	Vincenzo Caianiello
Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office May 17, 1996 – June 6, 2001
Prime Minister	Romano Prodi Massimo D'Alema Giuliano Amato
Preceded by	Susanna Agnelli
Succeeded by	Giuliano Amato
Member of the Italian Senate
Incumbent
Assumed office April 19, 2006
Constituency	Toscana
Personal details
Born	(1931-03-01) March 1, 1931 (age 81) Florence, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Political party	The People of Freedom
Spouse(s)	Donatella Pasquali Zingone
Residence	Rome, Italy
Alma mater	University of Florence
Profession	Politician Economist
Religion	Roman Catholic

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 Lamberto Dini (help·info) (born March 1, 1931) is an Italian politician and economist. He was the 75th Prime Minister of Italy from 1995 to 1996 and Foreign Minister from 1996 to 2001.

Early life and Berlusconi cabinet[link]

After studying Economics in his native city of Florence, Dini took up a post at the International Monetary Fund in 1959, where he worked his way up until he served as Executive Director for Italy, Greece, Portugal and Malta between 1976 and 1979. Then, in October 1979, he moved to the Banca d'Italia, where he served as executive until May 1994. When the Governor of the Bank of Italy, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, with whom Dini had developed a rivalry, was called upon to serve as Premier, in April, 1993, Dini was widely tipped to succeed him, but was passed over (allegedly on Ciampi's instigation) in favour of Antonio Fazio.

Dini scored a comeback, though, when Silvio Berlusconi formed the Berlusconi I Cabinet in May 1994, in which Dini served as Treasury Minister. Due to a split between Berlusconi and his coalition partner Umberto Bossi, the Lega Nord leader, Berlusconi's government collapsed in December 1994, after a mere seven months in power. In January 1995, Dini was appointed Prime Minister by President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. Though he was not noted as a left-winger, Dini, was given the confidence vote of the left-wing parties (apart from the Communist Refoundation) and by Lega Nord, whereas his erstwhile partners in the right-wing government chose to abstain whilst citing benevolence. In theory, his cabinet was a technocratic one.

The Olive Tree[link]

In April, 1996, a general election was called, in which Berlusconi's House of Freedoms coalition, minus the Lega Nord, was pitted against that of Romano Prodi, The Olive Tree. Relations between Dini and Berlusconi had seriously soured by then, and Dini chose to join The Olive Tree with his own centrist party, Italian Renewal. Dini was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies, and served for the entire term as Minister of Foreign Affairs in four successive centre-left governments, under Prodi, Massimo D'Alema in two separate, successive cabinets, and finally Giuliano Amato.

His party has merged into Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, a larger party formed out of several centrist parties belonging to the centre-left coalition. The May 2001 the general election was won by Berlusconi and his allies (including, once again, Lega Nord), which led to Berlusconi forming his second government in June. Dini was elected to the Italian Senate, and, in this capacity, served as a delegate to the Convention in charge of drafting the European Constitution (February 2002-July 2003).

The People of Freedom[link]

In September 2007, a month before Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy merged with the Democrats of the Left to form the new big tent centre-left Democratic Party, Dini broke away from The Daisy to form the Liberal Democrats, a new incarnation of Italian Renewal.

As protagonist of the defeat of the government of Prime Minister Romano Prodi in a January 2008 Senate vote, in view of the 2008 Italian general election Dini joined The People of Freedom, the newly created Italian liberal-conservative party led by Silvio Berlusconi.

Honours[link]

On 29 April 2009, the Japanese government announced that it has awarded Dini the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun; the honour will be presented to him by the Emperor and the Japanese Prime Minister in a formal ceremony in May.^[1]

References[link]

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Marco Travaglio
Marco Travaglio in Trento, 2010.
Born	Marco Travaglio (1964-10-13) October 13, 1964 (age 47) Turin, Italy
Years active	1988 – present

Marco Travaglio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmarko traˈvaʎʎo]; born 13 October 1964) is an Italian investigative journalist, writer and commentator.