Socialist Party in 1957. In 1958 he was re-elected to the Senate as an independent in the Socialist party list. He proposed to form a parliamentary inquiry committee to investigate the Sicilian Mafia. The proposal was opposed by the parliamentary majority with various arguments, and dismissed by Christian Democratic Senators Bernardo Mattarella and Giovanni Gioia as "useless". It was finally established in 1963. In 1963, President Antonio Segni appointed Parri senator for life. He joined the Independent Left group, and was for a long time its chairman from 1972 until his death. In March of the same year, he became the editor of the magazine L'Astrolabio, in which he argued in favour of a more accomplished democracy and denounced the resurgence of neofascism. From 1949 until 1969 he was president of the Italian Federation of Partisan Associations, an association of Resistance veterans that grouped members of Giustizia e Libertà, as well as members of Socialist, Republican, and anarchist groups. Death Parri died in Rome on 8 December 1981. He once characterized himself: "I am a common man – uomo della strada. I am just another guy – uomo qualunque ... I hope a typical one. My job is not only to prevent the right and left wings from exercising undue influence on the Government, but I have to think too of the enormous masses of peasants sweating in the fields under the sun, blacksmiths beating their anvils in villages, workers, men and women everywhere who have no taste for politics and are outside parties. ... I am just a uomo della strada." Notes References Bibliography Carlo Piola Caselli, Il taccuino di Ferruccio Parri sull'Europa (1948-1954), 2012 External links Biography on Antifascismo Biography |- |- |- |- |- 1890 births 1981 deaths People from Pinerolo Action Party (Italy) politicians Republican Democratic Concentration politicians Italian Republican Party politicians Popular Unity (Italy) politicians Prime Ministers of Italy Candidates for President of Italy Italian Ministers of the Interior Members of the Constituent Assembly of Italy Italian life senators Politicians of Piedmont Italian military personnel of World War I Italian anti-fascists Members of Giustizia e Libertà 20th-century Italian politicians Italian resistance movement members 20th-century Italian journalists