Licio Gelli
Licio Gelli (; April 21,1919 - December 15,2015) was an Italian financier, politician, and writer. He was known for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal. He was revealed in 1981 as being the Venerable Master of the clandestine lodge Propaganda Due (P2).
Early life
Gelli was born in Pistoia, Tuscany. During the 1930s, Gelli volunteered for the Blackshirts expeditionary forces sent by Mussolini in support of Francisco Franco' s rebellion in the Spanish Civil War.
Nobel Prize nomination
In 1996, Gelli was nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, supported by Mother Teresa and Naguib Mahfouz.
Death
Gelli died in Arezzo, Tuscany from respiratory failure at the age of 96.
Further reading
Ginsborg, Paul (2003). Italy and Its Discontents, London: Palgrave Macmillan (Review Institute of Historical Research | Review New York Times)
References
Other websites
Site of Italian newspaper" Il Piave" where Gelli writes regularly
1919 births
2015 deaths
Deaths from respiratory failure
Freemasons
Italian esotericists
Italian politicians
Italian writers
People from Tuscany