Giovanni Meo Zilio dal Partito d’Azione alla Lega Nord: curve e spigoli di un intellettuale militante

Giovanni Meo Zilio (1923-2006) was a distinguished scholar of Ibero-Ameri- can languages and literatures and was among the founders of the Interuniversity Center for Venetian Studies (CISVe). This article traces his profile as a public intellectual, span- ning from his participation in the Resistance and his engagement in post-war political life with the Partito d’Azione, to his role in the Italian emigration to Uruguay in the 1950s and his subsequent activities in Italy as an intellectual connected with the Italian Social- ist Party in the 1960s and 1970s, up to his involvement with the Lega Nord in the 1980s and 1990s.