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Giuseppe Medici
Giuseppe Medici
Minister of Foreign Affairs
	In office; 26 July 1972 – 7 July 1973
Prime Minister	Giulio Andreotti
Preceded by	Aldo Moro
Succeeded by	Aldo Moro
	In office; 24 June 1968 – 12 December 1968
Prime Minister	Aldo Moro
Preceded by	Amintore Fanfani
Succeeded by	Pietro Nenni
Minister for Public Administration Reform
	In office; 21 February 1962 – 16 May 1963
Prime Minister	Amintore Fanfani
Preceded by	Tiziano Tessitori
Succeeded by	Roberto Lucifredi
Minister of Industry and Commerce
	In office; 5 December 1963 – 5 March 1965
Prime Minister	Aldo Moro
Preceded by	Giuseppe Togni
Succeeded by	Edgardo Lami Starnuti
Minister of Public Education
	In office; 15 February 1959 – 26 July 1960
Prime Minister	Antonio Segni ; Fernando Tambroni
Preceded by	Aldo Moro
Succeeded by	Giacinto Bosco
Minister of Budget
	In office; 1 July 1958 – 15 February 1959
Prime Minister	Fernando Tambroni
Preceded by	Amintore Fanfani
Succeeded by	Adone Zoli
	In office; 21 June 1963 – 4 December 1963
Prime Minister	Antonio Giolitti
Preceded by	Giovanni Leone
Succeeded by	Ugo La Malfa
Minister of Treasury
	In office; 16 February 1956 – 1 July 1958
Prime Minister	Giulio Andreotti
Preceded by	Antonio Segni ; Adone Zoli
Succeeded by	Ezio Vanoni
Minister of Agriculture
	In office; 18 January 1954 – 2 July 1955
Prime Minister	Emilio Colombo
Preceded by	Amintore Fanfani ; Mario Scelba
Succeeded by	Rocco Salomone
Member of the Senate
	In office; 8 May 1948 – 4 July 1976
Personal details
Born	24 October 1907; Sassuolo, Italy
Died	21 August 2000 (aged 92); Modena, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Political party	Christian Democracy
Profession	Politician

Giuseppe Medici (24 October 1907 – 21 August 2000) was an Italian politician and economist.^[1]

Biography

He was born in Sassuolo, in the province of Modena, to Agostino Medici and Ersilia Messori, the second of four children. In 1926, after graduating as a surveyor at the Guarini Institute in Modena, he enrolled at the "Istituto Superiore Agrario di Milano" where he graduated in Agricultural Sciences in 1929, with a thesis on the economy of irrigation in the Lombard plain. Once military obligations were fulfilled, he briefly taught at the Technical Institute for Surveyors of Piacenza. In 1930 he published numerous publications and in 1931 he became the assistant of Giuseppe Tassinari; the following year he was a lecturer in agricultural economics and politics at the University of Bologna. In 1933 he won the competition for the chair at the University of Perugia and was then called to teach at the University of Turin.

In 1934 he published the Introduction to Agrarian Estimation which was a prelude to the Principles of Estimation of 1948, a text that will know many editions and will be adopted in numerous schools. In that same year he married Grazia Fiandri, with whom he had three children. In 1940 he wrote numerous agricultural voices in the Dictionary of Politics of the National Fascist Party. He was head of the Research Office of the Ministry of Agriculture, actively participated in the drafting of the civil code of 1942. The provisions of Book V in matters of agricultural law were set up by a subcommittee in which Medici had a prominent role, and great part of those rules were drafted by him in person.

Doctors also carried out a scientific activity focused on the themes of agriculture, agrarian reform and land reclamation. In July 1943 he took part in the work that led to the drafting of the Code of Camaldoli.^[2]

In 1960 he was called to hold the chair of Economic and Financial Policy of the Faculty of Political Science at the Sapienza University of Rome and became president of the National Academy of Agriculture.^[3]

From 1945 onwards he had more and more frequent relations with political circles thanks above all to agricultural skills: he was called by Manlio Rossi Doria to give his contribution to the solution of the problems of the agricultural economy in Italy and was included in the Italian delegation which in 1947 he went to the United States to discuss the Marshall Plan.

Initially close to the Italian Liberal Party, Medici then decided to join the Christian Democracy.

In 1948 he was elected Senator and held office until 1976. Medici served numerous times as Minister: he was Minister of Agriculture (Fanfani I Cabinet and Scelba Cabinet), Minister of Treasury (Leone II Cabinet and Andreotti II Cabinet), Minister of Budget (Fanfani II Cabinet), Minister of Public Education (Segni II Cabinet), Minister of Public Administration (Fanfani IV Cabinet), Minister of Industry (Moro I Cabinet and Moro II Cabinet) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (Andreotti II Cabinet).

He declined to run for re-election in 1976. Following his retirement from politics, he returned to academia and served as a professor emeritus at Sapienza University of Rome. He was also President of Montedison from 1977 to 1980.

He was also president of the Bolognese economic studies firm "Nomisma" from 1984 to 1995 and honorary president from 1995 until his death.

He died on 21 August 2000 at the age of 92.^[4]