Born in Bagno di Gavorrano in 1940, he attended the technical institute in Livorno for three years before leaving his studies in 1956 to join the Italian Communist Party at the age of sixteen.
[1] In 1965, he registered as a freelance journalist with the Italian Press Association and worked as a correspondent for L'Unità.
He resigned on 15 February 1982, and Flavio Tattarini succeeded him as head of the municipal administration.
[3] Finetti was involved in a car accident in Istia d'Ombrone on 23 January 1983 and died on 2 March of the same year.
[4][5] His death has been often considered "suspicious" by the conspiracy theories about the so-called "Ustica affair".