Aureliana Alberici

Alberici was born on 16 September 1941 in Bologna. She attended the University of Bologna, receiving a degree and a lecturing qualification in pedagogics in 1996.[1][2] She was a lecturer in pedagogics at the same university until 1986 when she began lecturing in adult education at La Sapienza University in Rome.[1]

She served as the assessor for public instruction on the Bologna Council from 1975 to 1983. She was a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and served as the national head of the school and university section of the PCI leadership from 1983 and as a member of the party's central committee.[1]

She was elected to the Senate of the Republic as a representative for the constituency of Bologna (III)–Imola in the 1987 general election. She was a member of the committee on public education and cultural heritage.[1] She was also a member of the commission for the library and the parliamentary committee for the general direction and supervision of radio and television services.[3] She was re-elected in the 1992 general election, where she remained a member of the committee on public education and cultural heritage. She became a member of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) on 27 April 1992 and was a member of the steering committee from 11 May 1992 to 14 April 1994.[4] She was re-elected for a third time in the 1994 general election, where she remained a member of the committee on public education and cultural heritage. She became a member of the Progressive Federative Group on 18 April 1994 and was a member of the steering committee from 27 May 1994 to 8 May 1996. She also served on the parliamentary commission of inquiry into terrorism in Italy and the causes of the failure to identify those responsible for the massacres.[5]

She was the third wife of the founder of the PDS, Achille Occhetto.