Editing Adone Zoli (section)

==Early life==
Adone Zoli was born in [[Cesena]], [[Emilia-Romagna]], in 1887. He grew up in a wealthy and [[Catholic]] observant family.<ref>Gabriella Tronconi Medri, ''Adone Zoli, Personaggi della vita pubblica di Forlì e circondario'', [[Urbino]], Edizioni Quattroventi, 1996</ref> In 1907, he graduated in law at the [[University of Bologna]], starting a career as a lawyer first in [[Genoa]], then in [[Bologna]] and finally in [[Florence]], where he met Tommaso Brunelli, a Catholic lawyer, elected deputy from [[Italian People's Party (1919)|Italian People's Party]] (PPI) in 1919, who greatly influenced Zoli's political ideology.<ref>Pierandrea Vanni, ''Adone Zoli, in I Grandi di Romagna'', [[Bologna]], Edizioni [[Il Resto del Carlino]], 1990</ref>

During these years he married Lucia Zoli, his cousin, with whom he had three children.<ref>[http://www.romagnanoi.it/news/forli/455871/Adone-Zoli-in-mostra-al-Senato.html Adone Zoli in mostra al Senato]</ref>

Adone Zoli fought in the [[World War I]] as a volunteer, taking part in the [[battle of Caporetto]] and obtained, at the end of the conflict, two crosses for war merit and one for military honor.<ref>Guido Gambetta and Salvatore Mirabella, ''Adone Zoli. Un padre della Repubblica'', [[Bologna]], Bononia University Press, 2010</ref> After the war he participated in various congresses of the PPI founded by Don [[Luigi Sturzo]]. In 1920, he became a member of party's national council, while in October 1921 he was appointed in the national direction, a position that he held until the dissolution of the party in 1926, imposed by the fascist regime of [[Benito Mussolini]]. For all his political career, Zoli remained strong [[anti-fascist]].<ref>Giulio Conticelli, ''Adone Zoli. Cristiano, patriota, avvocato'', [[Florence]], Polistampa, 2014</ref>

===Resistance movement===
In 1943, he joined the [[Italian resistance|partisan resistance]] by setting up the anti-fascist committee in Florence and later joining the [[National Liberation Committee]] (CLN), a political [[umbrella organization]] and the main representative of the resistance movement fighting against the German occupation of Italy in the aftermath of the [[Armistice of Cassibile]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.anpi.it/storia/140/comitato-di-liberazione-nazionale-cln |title=Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale – CLN |access-date=6 April 2020 |archive-date=28 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128084947/http://www.anpi.it/storia/140/comitato-di-liberazione-nazionale-cln |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In November 1943 he was arrested with two of his children and sentenced to death by the Nazis, but he was freed by his partisan comrades. In February 1944, he avoided another attempt to arrest him, but his wife and three children were arrested instead.<ref>[https://www.anpi.it/donne-e-uomini/645/adone-zoli Donne e Uomini della Resistenza: Adone Zoli], ANPI</ref>

In December 1943, he was among the founders of the [[Christian Democracy (Italy)|Christian Democracy]], the new centrist party, heir of the PPI, led by [[Alcide De Gasperi]].<ref name="reviewofpolitics">{{Cite journal|last=Einaudi|first=Mario|date=1947|title=Christian Democracy in Italy|journal=The Review of Politics|volume=9|issue=1|pages= 16–33|jstor=1404299|doi=10.1017/S003467050003792X}}</ref> After the liberation from the Nazis, Zoli served deputy mayor of Florence in the municipal government chaired by Gaetano Pieraccini.<ref>Alberto Mazzuca, ''Penne al vetriolo. I grandi giornalisti raccontano la Prima Repubblica'', [[Argelato]], Minerva Edizioni, 2017</ref>