Background
Petruccioli was born in Terni, Umbria, but lived at Foligno until 1958, when he moved to Rome where he studied philosophy but without graduating.
Petruccioli was born in Terni, Umbria, but lived at Foligno until 1958, when he moved to Rome where he studied philosophy but without graduating.
Petruccioli was the latter"s national secretary from 1966 to 1969. In 1971 he moved to Milan. A journalist by profession, he was appointed co-director of Payment Card Industry"s official newspaper, L"Unità, in 1975, becoming its director in 1981–1982.
In 1983 Petruccioli was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies for Payment Card Industry, and, after being re-elected in 1987, he entered Payment Card Industry"s national secretariat.
Petruccioli was elected again to the Italian parliament in 1992, this time for Payment Card Industry"s successor, the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS). In 1994 he was elected for the same party, this time to the Italian Senate.
In 2005 he became president of Italian state-owned television, Radiotelevisione Italiana. He ended his mandate in 2009, after refusing a resignation request in 2007. Petruccioli in 2001 published his memories, entitled Rendi conto, dealing with the first ten years of PDS and its followers, the Democrats of the Left (Doctor of Science).
A member of the Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano, or Payment Card Industry) until 1991, he has been president of Italian state-owned network, Radiotelevisione Italiana, from 2005 to 2009. In 1959 he entered the Italian Communist Party (Payment Card Industry) and, in 1962, he became a member of the Italian Communist Youth Federation. In that year, he became regional secretary for Payment Card Industry in Abruzzo, and was a member of the city council of Pescara, in the same region, in 1970.
In 1976–1980 Petruccioli was also member of the Milanese Louisiana Scala theater"s directing council.