Renzo Ravenna (Ferrara, August 20, 1893 - Ferrara, October 29, 1961) was an Italian lawyer and politician. He belonged to a prominent Jewish family in Ferrara and was, with Enrico Paolo Salem in Trieste, one of only two Fascist mayors of Jewish origin in Italy before the introduction of the racial laws.[1]
He was an interventionist and volunteer during World War I and a friend of Italo Balbo; this made him first approach and then join the National Fascist Party, until he was appointed podestà. He devoted himself to the administration of the city with particular attention to the economic situation, urban reconstruction and cultural initiatives. After his resignation, due to the institution of the anti-Jewish laws (1938) and with the death of Balbo (1940), he definitively distanced himself from Fascism: the persecution of his family by the regime, his flight to Switzerland and his subsequent return to Ferrara when the war was over definitively ended his political career. His figure as a Jewish personality holding posts linked to Fascism makes him the subject, even today, of investigation by historians and members of the cultural and political world.
The six Ravenna brothers in 1908. Standing, back, from left: Renzo (1893 - 1961), Gino (1889 - Auschwitz 1944), Alba (1891 - Auschwitz 1944); foreground: Margherita (1885 - Auschwitz 1944), Lina (1896 - 1970) and Bianca (1886 - 1944).Ariostea Square in Ferrara. The Ravenna family moved to a house on Corso Porta Mare across from it in 1898, after having lived in Via Vittoria in the ghetto for generations.[2]
^Sandro Scandolara (12 June 2009). "Storia di Paolo Salem l'ebreo fascista che fu podestà a Trieste". Il Piccolo. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
RenzoRavenna (Ferrara, August 20, 1893 - Ferrara, October 29, 1961) was an Italian lawyer and politician. He belonged to a prominent Jewish family in...
Bacchelli in his Il mulino del Po (The Mill on the Po) mentions it twice. RenzoRavenna, despite his Jewish faith, consumed it, even if only once a year. The...
cultural rebirth of the ancient Estense capital has been defended by RenzoRavenna, the mayor from 1926 to 1938, and by Italo Balbo's closest collaborators...
colonel, staff officer of the Corpo Truppe Volontarie), Aldo Finzi, RenzoRavenna (podestà of Ferrara and personal friend of Italo Balbo), Ettore Ovazza...
in November 1928, and for the occasion, in addition to Italo Balbo, RenzoRavenna and the main civil, military and religious personalities, the king,...
IT\ICCU\FER\0180423. Ilaria Pavan (2006). Il podestà ebreo. La storia di RenzoRavenna tra fascismo e leggi razziali (in Italian). Roma-Bari: Laterza. ISBN 88-420-7899-9...
completed in 1928. The city administration, represented by the podestà RenzoRavenna, in turn supported by Italo Balbo, played a large part in this reconstruction...
significant offices and positions in politics and economy (Aldo Finzi, RenzoRavenna, Margherita Sarfatti, Ettore Ovazza, Guido Jung). Others were active...
associates, including the journalist Nello Quilici and the Jewish lawyer RenzoRavenna. He participated in "The economic reconstruction of the province of...
safer environment (thanks to the presence of Italo Balbo, a friend of RenzoRavenna and always very open towards the Jewish community), the "Jewish enemy"...
born in March 1549 in Bagnacavallo (a village in the Papal States near Ravenna) to a humble family, who however succeeded to pay for his education. He...
Renzo Morigi (28 February 1895 – 13 April 1962) was an Italian pistol sports shooter who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1932, he won the gold...
Mayor of Ravenna is an elected politician who, along with the Ravenna's City Council, is accountable for the strategic government of Ravenna in Emilia-Romagna...
Renzo Caramaschi (born 4 March 1946 in Bolzano) is an Italian politician. He is an independent politician of centre-left and was elected Mayor of Bolzano...
established by the young Counts Aymo Maggi and Franco Mazzotti, sports manager Renzo Castagneto and motoring journalist Giovanni Canestrini, apparently in response...
participant) Giuseppe Di Vittorio, communist Tigrino Sabatini, communist Renzo Novatore, anarchist Vincenzo Baldazzi, socialist Alberto Acquacalda, communist...
ISBN 0-921447-34-5 De Felice, Renzo (1965). Mussolini. Il Rivoluzionario,1883–1920 (in Italian) (1 ed.). Torino: Einaudi. De Felice, Renzo (1966). Mussolini. Il...
is one of Rome's most ambitious modern architecture projects alongside Renzo Piano's Auditorium Parco della Musica and Massimiliano Fuksas' Rome Convention...
however, Totila destroyed it. It was then part of the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna (changing its name to Chrysopolis, "Golden City", probably due to the presence...
Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-926993-8. OCLC 47049906. Verwer, Renzo (2010). Bobby Fischer for Beginners. Alkmaar: New in Chess. ISBN 978-90-5691-315-1...
hill located in the territory of the municipality of Casola Valsenio (Ravenna), in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. The toponym, attested in the Middle...
club, successively to Hellas Verona (1990–91), Trentino (1991–92), and Ravenna (1992–93). Toldo then joined Fiorentina in 1993, and became the Viola club's...
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