Carlo Bernini
Carlo Bernini | |
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| Minister of Transport | |
| In office July 1989 – 27 June 1992 | |
| Prime Minister | Giulio Andreotti |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 May 1936 Bondeno |
| Died | 1 January 2011 (aged 74) |
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| Spouse | Angela Bernini |
| Children | 3 |
Carlo Bernini (6 May 1936 – 1 January 2011) was an Italian academic, politician and businessman. Being a member of the Christian Democracy (DC) he served at the Italian Senate between 1992 and 1994 and was the minister of transport in the period 1989–1992.
Biography
[edit]Bernini was born in Bondeno, Ferrara, on 6 May 1936.[1] In 1952 he joined the DC.[2] He was a professor of transport economics and worked at the faculty of political science of the University of Padua.[2] From 1971 to 1980 he was president of the Province of Treviso and president of the Veneto Region between 1980 and 1989.[3]
In July 1989 he was appointed minister of transport to the sixth cabinet of Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti.[4] He also held the same post in the Andreotti's seventh cabinet until 27 June 1992.[4] Bernini was elected to the Italian Senate in 1992 and served there until 1994.[1]
Following the dissolution of the DC in 1994 he retired from politics, but he joined the Union of the Centre in 2003 from which he resigned in 2008.[2] Then he joined the People of Freedom.[2] In 2004 Bernini founded a low cost airline company, MyAir, and headed it.[2][3] The company went bankrupt in 2009.[5]
Bernini was married to Angela Bernini and had three children.[4] In Summer 2010 he was hospitalized following a heart attack and died in a retirement home in Castelfranco Veneto on the New Year's Day of 2011.[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Carlo Bernini. XI Legislatura" (in Italian). Italian Senate. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "E' Morto Carlo Bernini, Ultimo 'Doge' Veneto". Oggi Treviso (in Italian). 1 January 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- 1 2 "Dead Carlo Bernini, ex-president of MyAir airline". AvioNews. 3 January 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- 1 2 3 4 "E' morto l'ex ministro Bernini Fu l'ultimo «Doge» della DC". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 1 January 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ↑ "Bancarotta Myair: Bernini, Soddu e Agnolin tra gli otto sotto inchiesta". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 19 March 2009. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
External links
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Media related to Carlo Bernini at Wikimedia Commons
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| People | |
- 21st-century Italian businesspeople
- 1936 births
- 2011 deaths
- Ministers of transport of Italy
- Christian Democracy (Italy) politicians
- Senators of Legislature XI of Italy
- Union of the Centre (2002) politicians
- The People of Freedom politicians
- Italian company founders
- Politicians from Ferrara
- Academic staff of the University of Padua
- Presidents of the Province of Treviso