Angelo Fortunato Formiggini
Angelo Fortunato Formiggini (born June 21, 1878 in Modena ; † November 28 or 29, 1938 there ) was an Italian publisher.
Life
Angelo Fortunato Formiggini came from a wealthy Jewish family in Modena. He attended the ancient language Liceo Galvani in Bologna, but was expelled from school in 1896 after the publication of a satirical poem and therefore graduated from the Liceo Muratori in Modena. He then studied law and in 1901 submitted his thesis in legal history.
At the turn of the century he turned to socialism .
He completed his literary studies, which he began in Rome in 1902, in 1907 in Bologna with a thesis on La filosofia del ridere . In 1908 he founded a publishing house in Bologna , with which he moved to Modena in 1909, to Genoa in 1911 and to Rome in 1916 . The first book he published was La secchia rapita . The Miscellanea tassoniana and other philosophical and educational works soon followed . From 1913 to 1938 a total of 105 volumes in the “Classici del ridere” series were published. He published biographies in the “Profili” series. From 1918 the literary monthly magazine L'Italia che scrive was published by Formigginis Verlag . After initially approving of fascism , he later turned away from it. On November 29, 1938, he threw himself in protest against the Italian racial laws from the bell tower of the Cathedral of Modena .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Fotomuseo ( Memento from January 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ So Linda Thomas, The Jews in Fascist Italy: The Raids in the Roman Ghetto and in the Ghetto of Venice , Frankfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3631585634 , p. 22
- ↑ Liceo Formiggini ( Memento of November 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Photo of the plaque
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Formiggini, Angelo Fortunato |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Formiggini, AF |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Modena |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 28, 1938 or November 29, 1938 |
| Place of death | Modena |