Ruggero Bonghi

Ruggero Bonghi ( born March 21, 1826 in Naples, † October 22, 1895 in Torre del Greco), in a different notation Ruggiero Bonghi, was an Italian classical scholar, university teacher, politician, writer and journalist.

Life

During his childhood and youth Ruggero Bonghi enjoyed an excellent education and attained a high level of education. He became politically active early on. 1847/48 he was an active participant in the reform and revolutionary movements in Italy. After the failure of the revolts of 1848 he fled because of political persecution by the Bourbon regime from his hometown. He found refuge in a short time in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany until he was forced to flee again there because of his bourbon critical publications. Bonghi so arrived to Turin, where he summarized the results of his studies and as a translator of the works of Plato and Aristotle worked.

In 1858 he declined an appointment as Professor of Ancient Greek language at the University of Pavia as of yet because the city was under Austrian rule. A year later, after the liberation of Lombardy, he then took it to the new Italian government.

In 1860 he was elected as an MP in the Parliament of the young Italian State, where he remained until 1895, in which he quickly reached a certain celebrity because of his sarcastic speeches and polemical writings. The years 1862-1865 saw him again in Turin, where he founded the newspaper La Stampa. In 1865, he took over the chair of Latin Literature at the University of Florence, in 1866 he went to Milan, where he was the editor of the newspaper La Perseveranza was until 1874 and worked with many other magazines. In 1867 he was appointed by the University of Milan as Professor of Ancient History, from 1871 he held the same position in Rome.

From 1873 to 1876 he was Minister of Education. During this time, he reformed the Italian education system and the Accademia della Crusca, curtailed the privileges of the University of Naples, was the impetus for the founding of the Italian National Library Vittorio Emanuele II and prevented the establishment of a Catholic university on the floor of the capital. He also founded the Direzione generale degli dei Musei e scavi ( " General Office of the archaeological excavations and museums " ) and initiated the Regional Park of the Appia Antica, the archaeological park along the Via Appia. For orphaned children teacher he founded two orphanages in Assisi the Collegio Convitto for boys and in Anagni the Istituto Regina Margherita for girls.

Since 1876, after the fall of the government, he had listened, he worked with his usual activity and passion as an opposition politician. A bitter critic of the government and the Italian king him to have been denied to the royal court in 1893 of access.

Ruggero Bonghi was a member of numerous academies and cultural institutions. In 1895 he died not far from his birthplace in Torre del Greco. He left numerous writings. For his services to him were erected in 1890 in Lucera and 1900 in Naples monuments.

Writings (selection )

  • Translations of the Metaphysics of Aristotle (5 volumes) and the dialogues of Plato ( 13 volumes )
  • Camillo Benso di Cavour, 1860
  • La vita e i tempi di Valentino Pisani, 1867
  • I partiti politici nel Parlamento italiano, 1868
  • Storia della Finanza italiana, 1868
  • L' National Alliance Prussiana e l' acquisto di Venezia, 1870
  • Pio IX e il futuro papa, 1877
  • Leone XIII e l' Italia, 1878
  • La storia antica in Oriente e in Grecia, 1879
  • Ritratti contemporanei: Cavour - Bismarck - Thiers, 1879
  • E Disraeli Gladstone, 1881
  • Storia di Roma, 1885
  • La questione ecclesiastica, 1887
  • La rivoluzione francese del 1798 e la italiana del rivoluzione 1859, 1889

Posthumously

  • I fatti miei pensieri miei ei - pagine del Diario, 1927
  • Opere, 14 volumes, 1934-1958

In the Italian union catalog of over 500 titles are listed.

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