Biography

Signorello was born in San Nicola da Crissa

San Nicola da Crissa

San Nicola da Crissa is a comune in the Province of Vibo Valentia in the Italian region Calabria, located about 40 km southwest of Catanzaro and about 15 km east of Vibo Valentia....

, in Calabria

Calabria

Calabria , in antiquity known as Bruttium, is a region in southern Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian Peninsula. The capital city of Calabria is Catanzaro....

, and graduated in Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence

Jurisprudence is the theory and philosophy of law. Scholars of jurisprudence, or legal theorists , hope to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature of law, of legal reasoning, legal systems and of legal institutions...

. A member of Christian Democracy (Democrazia Cristiana, or DC), he was elected in the provincial council of Rome

Province of Rome

The Province of Rome , is a province in the Lazio region of Italy. The province can be viewed as the extended metropolitan area of the city of Rome, although in its more peripheral portions, especially to the north, it comprises towns surrounded by rural landscape.-Geography:The Province of Rome...

 in 1952, remaining there until 1960 when it became president of the province (in charge until 1965).

He was initially near to Mario Scelba

Mario Scelba

Mario Scelba was an Italian Christian Democratic politician who served as the 34th Prime Minister of Italy from February 1954 to July 1955...

's wing within DC, but later moved to Giulio Andreotti

Giulio Andreotti

Giulio Andreotti is an Italian politician of the now dissolved centrist Christian Democracy party. He served as the 42nd Prime Minister of Italy from 1972 to 1973, from 1976 to 1979 and from 1989 to 1992. He also served as Minister of the Interior , Defense Minister and Foreign Minister and he...

's current, becoming one of the latter's frontmen in Rome alongside Amerigo Petrucci and Franco Evangelisti

Franco Evangelisti (politician)

Franco Evangelisti was an Italian politician, a member of Democrazia Cristiana and a long-standing follower of Giulio Andreotti.-Career:...

. In 1968 he was elected into the Italian Senate

Italian Senate

The Senate of the Republic is the upper house of the Italian Parliament. It was established in its current form on 8 May 1948, but previously existed during the Kingdom of Italy as Senato del Regno , itself a continuation of the Senato Subalpino of Sardinia-Piedmont established on 8 May 1848...

, and was confirmed until 1985. Signorello was Minister of Tourism, Sport and Spectales in 1973-1974, Minister of Merchant Marine in 1980 (replacing Evangelisti) and then again Minister of Tourism in three consecutive cabinets from 1980 to August 1983.

Signorello was elected as Mayor of Rome in May 1985, after years of Communist government of the city, remaining in charge until 1988. He abandoned the political activity in 1989.

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