Tina Lagostena Bassi

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name=Augusta Lagostena Bassi


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birth_date=birth date|1926|3|2
birth_place=Milan, Italy
death_date = death date and age|2008|3|4|1926|3|2
death_place=Rome, Italy
occupation=Lawyer
Politician
Writer
Showoman
nationality = flagicon|Italy Italian
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spouse= Vitaliano Lagostena
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Augusta Lagostena Bassi, named Tina, (March 2, 1926 - March 4, 2008) was an Italian lawyer, Italian deputy for Forza Italia party, showoman and writer.

Professional career

She achieved a jurisprudence degree and worked as assistant professor at Genoa University and then professor of navigation law at Parma University.S he worked in Italian Justice Department at Reform Office from 1973 - 1975 as consultant and continued his career as lawyer.She was famous as a defender of women cases .In 1983 she was the Italian delegate at the Wold Conference for Peace in Prague. For her commitment in behalf of women, she was one of founders of "Telefono Rosa" (in English "Pink Telephone") an association who helps women victims of brutality.

Political career

She was elected deputy of the Italian Chamber of Deputies in XII republican Parliament of Italy as a member of the Forza Italia party. She was additionally President of Italian National Committee for Equal Chance, member of the European Union Equal Opportunity Committee, member of the Justice Committee in Italian Parliament, delegate at Peking Conference for Women's Rights and assistant supervisor of the new Italian Law against sexual violence.

Work in TV

She wrote in 1993 for RAI, scenography of tv fiction "L'avvocato delle donne" (The lawyer of the women), performed by actress Mariangela Melato. From this experience she wrote a book with the same name of Tv fiction. Since 1998 she was judge for arbitration in Tv show "Forum" on Mediaset tv Rete 4 until her death. She managed Talk show "Tina-mite", on air in Italian tv network "Odeon"

Death

She died in Rome in a private hospital after a long illness two days following her 82nd birthday.

In 2006 she was named Honorary Provost of the Popular University of Milan.

References

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrNEMzwXJDE] - video ad memoriam (in Italian)
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFqlA5Arc_c] - video ad memoriam (in Italian)
* [http://www.corriere.it/cronache/08_marzo_04/lagostena_bassi_4b11d720-ea2e-11dc-b9a0-0003ba99c667.shtml] - article (in Italian)
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0481385/bio] - article (in English)