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Massimo D’Alema is an Italian politician and journalist born in Rome on 20 April 1949.
The son of Giuseppe D’Alema, a communist partisan and long-serving parliamentarian, and Fabiola Modesti, he grew up in a family deeply immersed in the culture and activities of the Italian Communist Party.
He studied philosophy at the University of Pisa after earning a classical high school diploma and began his political engagement early, joining the Italian Young Communists’ Federation in 1963.