Rosario Bentivegna

Rosario Bentivegna was an Italian partisan and doctor, born on 22 June 1922 and died on 2 April 2012. He was studying medicine at the Sapienza University of Rome when the Second World War reached the city, and he took part in the Roman resistance after the German occupation of Italy. Under the codename Paolo he was one of the principal actors of the Via Rasella attack, which killed 32 soldiers of the SS Police Regiment Bozen. Earlier he co-founded a Trotskyist group in 1939, was arrested by the secret police after a student demonstration in 1941 and joined the Italian Communist Party in 1943. After the war he stayed in the party and married the partisan Carla Capponi. The source article describes him as a doctor but gives almost nothing about his medical practice, so this entry does not either.