Angelo Abenante

Angelo Abenante (10 May 1927 – 27 March 2024) was an Italian trade unionist and politician. A member of the Italian Communist Party, he served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1963 to 1968 and in the Senate of the Republic from 1968 to 1976.

Career
After graduating from the Liceo scientifico Vincenzo Cuoco in Naples, he studied Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II, without completing his studies.

A trade unionist of the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL), from 1956 onwards, he was a member of the secretariat of the Chamber of Labour of Naples. A member of the Italian Communist Party, he was a municipal councillor and assessor for urban planning in Torre Annunziata and a provincial councillor in Naples.

Abenante was then elected to the Chamber of Deputies in Legislature IV of Italy (from 1963 to 1968), while in Legislatures V and VI he was a senator, remaining in office from 1968 until 1976.

Personal life and death
Abenante was married to Ada Salvagnini, a Venetian onetime World War II partisan born in Mestre in 1923; she died in 2011.

Abenante died on 27 March 2024, at the age of 96.