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After he graduated Philosophy , he collaborated with some newspapers, among them being '' Il Leonardo '' of Giovanni Papini and '' La Voce '' of Giuseppe Prezzolini . After that, he obtained the chair of theoretical philosophy at the University Of Pisa . Attracted by the Politics , he was elected three times to the Italian Chamber Of Deputies for Salerno. In the 1910s , Amendola supported the Italian Liberal Movement , but he was completely against the ideology of Giovanni Giolitti . During World War I , he adopted a position of Democratic Irredentism and, at the end of the war, he was nominated minister by Prime Minister Francesco Saverio Nitti . His critical positions while confronting the Right-wing extremism costed him a series of aggressions from the Fascist hired killers. In 1924 Amendola refused to adhere to the " Listone Mussolini ", and attempted to become Prime Minister, as the head of a liberal coalition which ran in elections. He was defeated, but continuated the democratic battle by writing columns for the '' Il Mondo '', a new daily newspaper which he founded together with other intellectuals. Resented by . His son, Giorgio Amendola , was an important Communist writer and politician. |
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