Raffaello Bellucci

Raffaello Bellucci was an Italian partisan and politician. A member of the Italian Communist Party, he took part to the Resistance movement under the name of "Franco Nello". He served as president of the Province of Grosseto from 1947 to 1948, and Deputy in the first legislature of the Republic of Italy.

Biography

With a background in republicanism, Bellucci moved to France in 1931. In 1932, he returned to Italy, to Grosseto, where he was arrested for anti-fascist activities. In 1934, as a free citizen, he went back to France, residing in Nice, where he established connections with communist activists in exile. Monitored by the OVRA in the following years, he was arrested in Menton in 1943 and released in August of the same year.
He participated in the resistance movement under the name "Franco Nello," and at the end of the conflict, he was appointed secretary of the Communist Federation of Grosseto.
He was elected as a deputy for the Italian Communist Party in the first legislature of the Republic. It was not re-elected in the second legislature.