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Licio Gelli

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Italian financier, liaison with Nazi Germany, P2 grandmaster, involved in many scandals (1919-2015)

Person · Open Library

Works
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Top works

  • Lacrime d'oro
  • Ricordi di memorie spente
  • La verità
  • Poesie 1959-1999

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Quotes

  • We had Italy in our hands. We would never have wanted to attack, but we were like a sentinel, carefully ensuring that the Communist party should never emerge.

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Key facts

Born
( 1919-04-21 ) 21 April 1919, Pistoia , Tuscany , Kingdom of Italy
Died
15 December 2015 (2015-12-15) (aged 96), Arezzo , Tuscany, Italy
Occupation
Businessman
Organization
Propaganda Due (until 1982)
Height
1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Political party
National Fascist Party , (1939–1943), Republican Fascist Party , (1943–1945)
Spouses
Wanda Vannacci ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1944 ; died 1993 ) ​ Gabriela Vasile ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2006 ) ​
Children
Raffaello (b. 1947), Maria Rosa (b. 1956), Maurizio (b. 1959)

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Encyclopedic overview

Licio Gelli ( Italian: [ˈliːtʃo ˈdʒɛlli]; 21 April 1919 – 15 December 2015) was an Italian Freemason, businessman, and terrorist. A fascist volunteer in his youth, he is chiefly known for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal and in the Bologna massacre. He was revealed in 1981 as being the Venerable Master of the clandestine Masonic lodge Propaganda Due (P2). This would lead to him getting arrested in Switzerland in 1982. He managed to escape from prison the next year, but eventually agreed to surrender him back into the custody of Swiss authorities for a short period of time in 1987. From 1996 until his death in 2015, Gelli remained mostly under house arrest at his home in Arezzo, Italy.

Early life

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