Celeste Negarville (17 June 1905 – 18 July 1959)[1] was an Italian communist, journalist and politician, first director of the post-war newspaper l'Unità and undersecretary for foreign affairs in the Parri and De Gasperi governments.

Returning to Italy, in 1924 he was appointed Piedmontese regional secretary of the Italian Communist Youth Federation (FGCI).

[6] In 1948 he became a member by right of the new Senate, under the 3rd final provision of the Constitution, by virtue of having been imprisoned for more than 5 years by the Special Fascist Tribunal for the Defense of the State.

[7] A member of the leadership of the PCI, he was Secretary of the party’s Turin federation in the years when the automation of the plants was changing the internal organization of the factories and, above all, of Fiat.

He ably faced the attack led by Vittorio Valletta, that sought to use these changes to dismantle the workers' post-war gains.

Negarville left Turin and assumed the Italian leadership of the Peace Movement, a role that also led him to take on important international initiatives.

[9][10] Again according to Montanelli, Negarville later wanted to follow the example of Eugenio Reale, who left the party, but refrained from doing so solely because his wife's family was in Russia and therefore feared for her.