Roberto Cessi

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Roberto Cessi (born August 20, 1885 in Rovigo , † January 19, 1969 in Padua ) was an Italian historian with a focus on Venetian history , resistance fighter . At the same time he was a politician and member of the Resistancea from 1943.

Live and act

Initially employed at the Venice State Archives and high school teacher, he became professor of economic history in 1922 , and in 1925 professor of medieval and modern history at the University of Padua . He was socio nazionale of the Accademia dei Lincei , chairman of the Deputazione Storia Patria delle tre Venezie and member of the Consiglio Superiore degli Archivi di Stato . He was also a member of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti . From 1908 he was a member of the Partito Socialista Italiano , in 1943 he went underground and in the first legislative period of the Republic of Italy he was a member of the Camera dei deputati for the constituency of Verona-Vicenza-Padova-Rovigo.

Cessi edited numerous medieval sources on the history of Venice and its territories. The timeframe of his essays and books ranges from the early Middle Ages to the unification of Italy in the 19th century; he also dedicated a monograph to Martin Luther .

In June 2000 he was reburied in the university grave in the main cemetery in Padua.

Fonts (selection)

Statuti rurali bresciani del secolo XIV , 1923
  • Un passo dubbio di Ennodio , Padua 1905.
  • Statuti rurali bresciani del secolo XIV . Bestetti e Tumminelli, Milano-Roma 1923.
  • Theodoricus inlitteratus , in: Miscellanea di studi critici in onore di V. Crescini , Cividale 1927, pp. 211-236.
  • Dispacci degli ambasciatori veneziani alla corte di Roma presso Giulio II (25 giugno 1509 - 9 gennaio 1510) , Venice 1932.
  • Documenti relativi alla storia di Venezia anteriori al Mille , 2 vols., Padua 1940 and 1942 (ND Venice 1991). ( Digitized version, vol. 1 )
  • La Repubblica di Venezia e il problema adriatico , Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Naples 1953.
  • Martino Lutero , Einaudi, Turin 1954.
  • Storia della Repubblica di Venezia [nuova edizione riveduta ed ampliata], Casa Editrice Giuseppe Principato, Milan / Messina 1968 (= Biblioteca Storica Principato; 26).

literature

  • Paolo Preto: Cessi, Roberto , in: Dizionario biografico degli Italiani , Vol. 24, 1980.
  • Miscellanea in onore di Roberto Cessi, con un saggio introduttivo di G. Luzzatto su 'L'opera storica di RC e una bibliografia dei suoi scritti . 3 volumes. Edizioni di storia e letteratura, Rome, 1958.
  • Ernesto Sestan , Roberto Cessi, storico , in: Archivio Veneto , 5a ser., 121f. (1969) 219-235.
  • Ernesto Sestan, Roberto Cessi , Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome 1972.
  • Mirella Blason-Berton: Padova Medioevale negli studi giovanili di Roberto Cessi . In: Anuario de estudios medievales, Nº 8, 1972-1973, pp. 511-520, ISSN  0066-5061 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Istituto ( Memento of July 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Senate minutes of June 20, 2000 ( memento of the original of January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 80 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unipd.it
personal data
SURNAME Cessi, Roberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian historian and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Rovigo
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 1969
Place of death Padua