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Giuseppe Emanuele Modigliani (28 October 1872 – 5 October 1947) was an Italian lawyer and politician.

Early life and education
Giuseppe Emanuele Modigliani was born on 28 October 1872 in Livorno, in a wealthy Jewish family. His parents were Flaminio Modigliani and Eugenia Garsin, and he was the eldest of four brothers: Margherita Olimpia, Umberto Isacco, and Amedeo.

Modigliani attended the liceo classico Niccolini Guerrazzi in Livorno. In 1890 he started studying Mathematics at the University of Pisa, later changing to Law. He graduated in 1895 and his thesis was published.

Political career
His political activism started during his University years, and in 1894 he contributed to the creation of the Livornese section of the Italian Socialist Party. A year later, he was elected councillor of the municipality and appointed secretary of the Tuscan Socialist Federation.

In 1922, after being expelled from the Italian Socialist Party, he was among the co-founders of the Unitary Socialist Party. On 19 November of the same year, as Benito Mussolini was for the first time as prime minister giving a speech to the Parliament (later known as the Bivouac Speech), Modigliani famously shouted Viva il Parlamento! (lit. Long live the Parliament).