Eugenio Reale

[1] Born into a bourgeois family, very close to the Neapolitan aristocracy, Eugenio Reale graduated during the period when Fascism began to take hold of Italy’s institutions.

It was Reale who welcomed Palmiro Togliatti to Naples in 1944 with Salvatore Cacciapuoti and Maurizio Valenzi on his return from the USSR after his exile, and hosted him at his house.

The secretary of the PCI gave him sensitive him delicate assignments such as commercial relations with the countries of Eastern Europe in order to finance the party through commissions on each deal.

[1] He was appointed ambassador to Poland in September 1945 (where he married Sulamita Kacyzne, who as to be his lifelong companion), and was a member of the communist party delegation (with Luigi Longo) at the meeting in Szklarska Poręba which founded the Cominform.

[4] In the seventies there was talk of his proximity to the resistance committees of Edgardo Sogno, who thought of appointing him Minister of the Interior in a government that he planned to form after staging a “white coup”.