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Paolo Emilio Taviani

Paolo Emilio Taviani (6 November 1912 – 18 June 2001) was an Italian political leader, economist, and historian of the career of Christopher Columbus. He was a partisan leader in Liguria, a Gold Medal of the Italian resistance movement, then a member of the ''Consulta'' (the national assembly gathered to direct the transformation of the monarchy into a republic) and the Constituent Assembly, later of the Italian Parliament from 1948 until his death. Several times minister in the Republic's governments. He was author of studies on economics and important works on Columbus, university professor and journalist.

Giorgio Napolitano, the then-President of the Italian Republic, described him as an "eminent political and government figure who for decades continued to bear witness to the diversity of ideals that inspired the Resistance." Provided by Wikipedia