Career
He was among the founders of the Communist Party of Italy (PCd"I) in 1921. In December 1912 he was appointed responsible of the Milanese section of the Italian Socialist Party. After the war he was instrumental to all the events the led to the founding of the PCd"I in Livorno (January 21, 1921).
He was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1924.
When all the Italian Communist deputies were arrested (November 8, 1926), Fortichiari was sentenced to five years of internment, but he was released after one year for being affected by tuberculosis. He moved to Milan, but here he met difficulties to find a regular job, which were aggravated by his expulsion from the Payment Card Industry in 1929.
Despite the Payment Card Industry"s campaign against him, Fortichiari was readmitted in its ranks after the war, although he held secondary positions and was under a strict control of the party cadres, who were arguably weary of his intact charisma as the main figure inside an anti-Stalinist current. In 1956, he was again expelled from Payment Card Industry. He remained active until his death, apart a hiatus in 1965-1970, trying to collect the dissension against the party"s official doctrine in the communist left movement.
Fortichiari died in Milan.