Concetto Marchesi

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Concetto Marchesi (1954)

Concetto Marchesi (born February 1, 1878 in Catania , † February 12, 1957 in Rome ) was an Italian classical philologist and politician .

Life

Concetto Marchesi joined the Italian Socialist Party, founded three years earlier, in 1895 and began studying humanities at the University of Catania that same year . The Latinist Remigio Sabbadini (1850–1934) had a particular influence on him. At the age of 18 Marchesi was imprisoned for two months for the publication of a little pamphlet called Lucifero, which had been convicted as a criminal offense two years earlier . After his release he left Catania and continued his studies in Florence . In 1899 he finished his studies with a laureate from the University of Florence . After working at various schools, he was a high school teacher in Pisa from 1906 . In 1910 he married Ada Sabbadini, the daughter of his academic teacher in Catania. In 1915 he was appointed to the chair of Latin literature at the University of Messina . There he obtained a further doctorate in law in 1923 with the work Il pensiero giuridico e politico di Tacito ("Legal and political thinking in Tacitus") . In the same year he was appointed to the University of Padua . In 1921 he joined the newly founded Communist Party of Italy , but in 1931 he swore the oath on fascism . This enabled Carlo Anti to keep him in office. In 1928 Marchesi became a member of the Accademia dei Lincei .

In 1943 he took part in the resistance against the fascist regime organized by the Italian parties and was appointed rector of the University of Padua in September of that year as Anti's successor. A little later he resigned from office and had to flee. From Switzerland, where he had come with the help of the partisan group commanded by his pupil Ezio Franceschini , he called for the resistance and in 1944 also actively participated in the fight at the head of the FRAMA group, which he and Franceschini led. From 1945 he became politically active in post-fascist Italy, first in the Consulta nazionale , and was elected to the Assemblea Costituente della Repubblica Italiana in 1946 , then in 1948 as a member of the House of Representatives of the Italian Republic in the Italian Parliament, to which he belonged during the first two legislative periods .

Although Marchesi had little interest in text history, he began his studies with research on the late medieval and humanistic transmission of the ancient texts. He achieved his most important achievements with his historical and content-related interpretations of the ancient texts, in his commentaries on the works of Cicero , Seneca , Apuleius and Prudentius as well as in his monographs on Martial , Petronius , Juvenal , Senaca, Phaedrus , Tacitus and the Latin fable . The main work is the history of Latin literature, which is based on Francesco De Sancti's history of Italian literature. The work, which stood in the tradition of the so-called "romantic criticism", made a particular contribution to the appreciation of the literature of the 1st and 2nd centuries. Marchesi was more interested in the author instead of his position in history, more in the human being than the citizen, with which he opposed the common view of the fascist state with its view of Romanitas . His political convictions also went hand in hand with an interest in social issues, which is why he also researched Latin fables in particular . He also wrote his own poems and works of fiction.

literature

Web links

Commons : Concetto Marchesi  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry in the Portale storico of the Camera dei deputati

Remarks

  1. ^ First as a corresponding member, from September 20, 1946 as a full member ( socio nazionale ); after Annuario 1993, p. 357
personal data
SURNAME Marchesi, Concetto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian classical philologist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Catania
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1957
Place of death Rome