Pasquale Villari

Pasquale Villari ( born October 3, 1827 in Naples, † December 11, 1917 in Florence ) was an Italian historian, university professor, and politician.

In Naples, he was a pupil of Francesco De Sanctis and participated with him in 1848 in the revolution against the Bourbons in Naples, fled after their failure to Florence and in 1859 professor of philosophy at Pisa. He traveled to learn about the local schools, England and Germany, in 1866 Professor of History at the Istituto di Studi Superiori in Florence and member of the supreme teacher's ( Consiglio Superiore della Public Education ), to which he belonged, with brief interruptions until 1902, from 1898 to 1902 as Vice President. From 1870 to 1876, from 1880 to 1882 he was a member of the Camera dei Deputati and participated in the politics of the day after the disasters of 1866 causing a stir with the pamphlet Di chi è la culpa? . In 1884 he was appointed Senator of the Kingdom of Italy. From February 1891 to May 1892 was Villari Minister of Education in the first Cabinet of Antonio di Starabba Rudinì.

The Pour le Mérite in 1891 he was awarded for Science and Arts. He was a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and since 1871 a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. In 1876 he became a corresponding, in 1878 a full member of the Accademia dei Lincei, of which he was president from 1902 to 1904. Since 1893 he was also a member of the Accademia della Crusca. From 1910 until his death he was also Honorary President of the Associazione Nazionale per gli Interessi del Mezzogiorno d' Italia, while the actual management was in the hands of Leopoldo Franchetti and ran out the main impetus of Umberto Zanotti Bianco. This should be the " Questione meridional " leave the area of theoretical debates and lead to practical action.

His wife Linda White Mazini Villari, who was herself a writer and translator, translated many of his works into English. His younger brother Emilio (1836-1904) was a renowned physicist. Villari died at the age of 90 years and is buried in the cemetery Cimitero delle Porte Sante.

Works (selection)

  • La storia di Girolamo Savonarola e de'suoi tempi. Florence 1859-61, 2 vols; 2nd edition 1887; German of Moritz Berduschek. Leipzig 1868, 2 vols
  • L' Italia, la latina civiltà e la civiltà germanica: Osservazioni storiche. Florence in 1861.
  • Antiche leggende e tradizioni che la divina commedia illustrano: precedute because alcune Osservazioni. . Pisa 1865 reprint Sala Bolognese: Forni, 1979.
  • Niccolò Machiavelli ei suoi tempi illustrati con nuovi documenti. Florence 1877-82, 3 vols; German by Bernhard Mangold. Leipzig 1877-83, 3 vols
  • Saggi di storia, di critica e di politica. Florence 1868.
  • Nuovi scritti pedagogici. Florence in 1891.
  • Le lettere ed altri meridionali scritti sulla questione sociale in Italia ( dass 1878). Reproduction Napoli. Guida Ed, 1979, ISBN 88-7042-366-2.
  • I mali dell'Italia: scritti su mafia, camorra e Brigandage. Firenze: Vallecchi, 1995, ISBN 88-8252-031-5.
  • "Un anello ideal" fra Italia e Germania. Corrispondenze di Pasquale Villari con storici tedeschi. ( Editor: Anna Maria Voci ) Rome: Archivio Guido Izzi, 2006
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