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              2 Authority record results for Italy

              MT AF-P000034 · Person · 1547-1616

              Matteo Pérez d'Aleccio (1547–1628), Italian painter, specialized in historical, nautical, and spiritual topics during the Mannerist era. He resided in Peru for more than 40 years, from 1588 to 1628, and spent most of that time creating art.

              Mizzi, Enrico, 1885-1950
              MT AF-P000002 · Person · 20/09/1885 – 20/12/1950

              Dr Enrico Mizzi was a Maltese politician, leader of the Nationalist Party from 1926 and a Prime Minister of Malta in 1950. He was born in 1885 in Valletta to Maria Sofia Folliera de Luna, the daughter of the vice-consul of Naples, and Fortunato Mizzi. Mizzi studied in Gozo Seminary, read law at the University of Rome La Sapienza and the University of Urbino, and studied literature and science at the Royal University of Malta. He married Bice Vassallo and they had one son, Dun Fortunat Mizzi.

              Mizzi was first elected to the Council of Government from Gozo in 1915 as Member of the Comitato Patriottico. He was arrested at his residence on 7 May and court-martialled on charges of sedition in 1917 under the Malta Defense Regulations for writings and statements against the British. He was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment with hard labour, the loss of civil rights, and the withdrawal of the lawyer’s warrant. The sentence was commuted by Governor Methuen to a ‘severe censure’, while his civil rights and warrant were restored following the cessation of hostilities in 1918.

              Mizzi founded the Circolo Giovane Malta and was life president of the Societa Dante Alighieri. He was part of the Maltese Political Union coalition, whom he split and formed the Democratic Nationalist Party / Partito Democratico Nazionalista (PDM) to contest the elections for Malta’s first self Government. Later the PDN merged with the Maltese Political Union / Unione Politica Maltese (UPM) to form the Partit Nazzjonalista (PN). He was co-leader of the PN with Sir Ugo P. Mifsud (1926-1942).

              On 30 May 1940, he was arrested and deported to Uganda, with another 47 Maltese people, where he remained in close contact with other members of the Partit Nazzjonalista. In 1945, the exiled persons, including Mizzi, were allowed back to Malta, where he re-entered politics and reorganised the PN. At the 1950 elections, Mizzi was appointed Prime Minister but he died three months later on the 20th December.