Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati

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Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati
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motto Giunto 'l vedrai per vie lunghe e distorte
founding 1750
place Rovereto , Italy
president Stefano Ferrari
Website www.agiati.it

The Accademia degli Agiati di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti , briefly referred to as Accademia degli Agiati , in Rovereto is a scientific society with both the humanities and the natural sciences.

history

The Accademia degli Agiati was founded in 1750 by Giuseppe Valeriano Vannetti, his wife Bianca Laura Saibante, Francesco Saibante and the two clergymen Gottardo Antonio Festi and Giuseppe Felice Givanni in the town then under Habsburg rule. The first meeting took place on December 27, 1750 in the house of the Saibante family, where a literary group had already met beforehand . The aim of the academy was to satisfy the cultural needs of the bourgeoisie of Rovereto, which had become prosperous in the 18th century through silk making, and at the same time to promote the cultural identity of this class. Girolamo Tartarotti tried to promote the intellectual life of the city by forming literary groups as early as the first half of the 18th century . Among these visitors were also the later founders of the academy, who were inspired by the Accademia dell'Arcadia founded in Rome in the 17th century .

In 1753 the Academy was recognized and privileged by Empress Maria Theresa as the Imperial Regia Accademia . Among the early members were Scipione Maffei , great adversary of Girolamo Tartarotti, which is why the latter never joined the academy, Carlo Goldoni and Laura Bassi . Clementino Vanetti , the son of Giuseppe Valeriano and Bianca Laura Saibante, was the Academy's secretary towards the end of the century. In 1813 Antonio Rosmini was accepted, who drafted the new statute of the Academy, which came into force in 1825, and was elected President several times. In 1834 Alessandro Manzoni became a member . Also, Antonio Fogazzaro and geoscientists Torquato Taramelli belonged to the circle of members. The archaeologists Federico Halbherr and Paolo Orsi , the composer Riccardo Zandonai and the futurist Fortunato Depero have found international recognition .

The Palazzo of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto , since 2002 also the seat of the Academy.

In 1883 the regular publication of the Atti dell'Accademia began . In the second half of the century, the members represented a moderate irredentism . After the end of the First World War and the annexation of Trentino to the Kingdom of Italy , the national heroes ("Protomartiri della Grande Guerra") Cesare Battisti , Damiano Chiesa and Fabio Filzi, fusiled by the Austrians in 1916 for high treason, were appointed honorary members of the Academy. In 1926 they were followed by Benito Mussolini as an honorary member. As early as 1910, the linguist Carlo Battisti , also from Trentino, had become a member, who was to play the leading role in Vittorio De Sica's film Umberto D. 1952. Beniamino Andreatta became a corresponding member in 1968, while the painter Ernesto Giuliano Armani (1898–1986) was elected a full member in 1979. Also Norberto Bobbio counted since 1968 to the corresponding members, the goods watchers and politicians Giorgio Nebbia from 1979, as the musicologist Rudolph Angermüller since 1995, the classicist Luciano Canfora and the historian Hartmut Galsterer since 1999. The biologist Klaus Hellrigl is since 2000 a full member of science class. Paolo Prodi , the co-founder of the Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento , has been a full member since 1974, the South Tyrolean art historian Helmut Stampfer since 1992, the historian Gherardo Ortalli, who teaches in Venice, and the Innsbrucker Josef Riedmann have been corresponding members since 1988, Friederike Zaisberger since 1996 .

A strong regional accent in the selection of members can be observed since the beginning, as well as timid attempts at Europeanization.

literature

  • Marcello Bonazza: L'Accademia roveretana degli Agiati . Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati, Rovereto 1998 ( PDF )
  • Gauro Coppola, Antonio Passerini, Gianfranco Zandonati (eds.): Un secolo di vita dell'Accademia degli Agiati: (1901-2000) Volume 1 Le memorie, l'attività . Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati, Rovereto 2003.
  • Gauro Coppola, Antonio Passerini, Gianfranco Zandonati (eds.): Un secolo di vita dell'Accademia degli Agiati: (1901-2000) Volume 2 I soci . Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati, Rovereto 2003.

Web links

Commons : Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Marcello Bonazza: L'Accademia roveretana degli Agiati p. 8
  2. ↑ Marcello Bonazza: L'Accademia roveretana degli Agiati, pp. 5-8
  3. ^ Information from the library of the Italian Senate

Coordinates: 45 ° 53 '26.9 "  N , 11 ° 2' 38.6"  E