Ausonio Franchi
Ausonio Franchi , actually Cristoforo Bonavino (born February 24, 1821 in Pegli ; † September 12, 1895 ibid), was an Italian philosopher and Catholic priest.
Life
Franchi was the son of the cloth merchant Giambattista Bonavino and his wife Caterina Traverso. At the age of 16 Franchi became a pupil of a church college in his hometown in 1837 because his family had forbidden him to join the Jesuit order . He joined the Redemptorists three years later and was ordained a priest in Bobbio on December 1, 1843 .
From 1845 to 1848 Franchi worked as a teacher in the higher school service. During these years he made a. a. the acquaintance with Vincenzo Gioberti and Bertrando Spaventa , who, according to his own statements, influenced him in part very much. With his works Il razionalismo del popolo and La religione del secolo XIX , Franchi was one of the first (besides those already mentioned) to fight against the scholasticism and orthodoxy of established philosophy.
When Franchi anonymously translated the work Jesus Christ devant les conseils de guerre by Victor Meunier into Italian in 1849 , he was betrayed and suspended ( A divinis ).
Franchi took this as an opportunity to leave the church and from this time to publish only under his pseudonym Ausonio Franchi . The first name should be reminiscent of the ancient Ausonians and the last name showed the desire for freedom and independence.
In 1852 Franchi published his Ultima critica , in which he polemicized against representatives of the Holy See , namely against Terenzio Mamiani , because he considered his theses and theories - based on Plato - to be outdated and backward. Two years later this book became franchis at the request of Pope Pius IX. placed on the index Librorum Prohibitorum .
Franchi also founded the journal La ragione (Turin 1854–1857, 7 vols.), In which he proceeded with the same frankness. Despite his sharp polemics against orthodox philosophy, the new Italian government made him professor of philosophy of history at the Academy of Pavia in 1860 and later (1863) at the Accademia scientifico-letteraria in Milan. In this position Franchi published the Letture su la storia della filosofia moderna (Milan 1863, 2 vols.) And Prolusione al corso di filosofia nell 'accademia scientifico-letteraria di Milano (Turin 1868), which received less general approval than his earlier polemical writings .
In the later work Sulla teorica del giudizio (Milan 1870, 2 vols.), He tried to justify the nature of the a priori synthetic judgments of Kant .
Works
- Confessioni d'un metafisico (1865)
- Ultima critica. Filosofia delle scuole Italiane (Capolago 1852, Florence 1862)
- Il razionalismo del popolo (Geneva 1856; 3rd edition, Milan 1864)
- La religione del secolo XIX (Geneva 1853; new edition, Milan 1859)
- Saggi di critica e polemica (Milan 1870–1872, 3 vols.);
- Nuovi elementi di grammatica generale applicati alla lingua italiana (Milan 1866, 2nd ed. 1874)
- La caduta del principato ecclesiastico e la restaurazione dell 'imperio germanico (Milan 1871).
literature
- Vincenzo Suraci: Ausonio Franchi, filosofo e pedagogista . Dante Alighieri, Milan 1936.
- Fiorenza Taricone : Ausonio Franchi. Democrazia e libero pensiero nel XIX secolo . Edizione Name, Genoa 2000, ISBN 88-87298-10-6 .
- Thomas Marschler: Franchi, Ausonio. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 531-535.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Franchi, Ausonio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bonavino, Cristoforo (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian philosopher and Catholic priest |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pegli |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 1895 |
| Place of death | Genoa |