Domenico Berti

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Domenico Berti

Domenico Berti (born December 17, 1820 in Cumiana ( Piedmont ), † April 22, 1897 in Rome ) was an Italian philosopher , writer and statesman.

Life

Domenico Berti studied in Turin and in 1849 became professor of philosophy at the university there . From 1850 he was a deputy and as such first a member of the Sardinian, then the Piedmontese Chamber and finally the Italian Parliament. He represented a moderate direction in politics as well as in literature and, as a deputy, belonged to the right center until 1880 and since then to the left. From 1860 to 1862 he was a trainee lawyer in the State Council and from 1862–64 Secretary General in the Ministry of Commerce. In 1866 he served as Minister of Education in the cabinet of the Italian Prime Minister Alfonso La Marmora and held this office until February 1867 under Bettino Ricasoli . His homeland Piedmont owed him in particular the establishment of normal schools for the first lessons. He held the professorship of philosophy at the University of Rome from 1871 to 1877. Then in May 1881 he took over the Ministry of Agriculture and Trade, which he headed until March 1884 and in which position he advocated social legislation. In December 1884 he was elected Vice-President of the Chamber, in April 1889 appointed First Secretary of the Order of St. Mauritius and Lazarus and Chancellor of the Order of the Crown of Italy .

As a writer, Berti distinguished himself through numerous educational and political essays through writings on Giovanni Pico della Mirandola , Giordano Bruno ( Vita di Giordano Bruno , Turin 1868, based on mostly unpublished sources, new edition 1889), Nicolaus Copernicus ( Copernico e le vicende del sistema Copernicano in Italia , Rome 1876), Galileo Galilei ( Il processo originale di Galileo Galilei , 2nd edition, Rome 1878), Cesare Alfieri ( Cesare Alfieri , Rome 1877), G. Valdès ( Di Giovanni Valdes e di taluni suoi discepoli , Rome 1878), Cesare Cremonino ( Di Cesare Cremonino e della sua controversia con l'inquisizione di Padova e di Roma , Rome 1878) and Tommaso Campanella ( La vita e le opere di Tommaso Campanella , Rome 1878). He also published Il conte di Cavour avante il 1848 (Rome 1887) and Diario inedito con note autobiografiche di Cavour and founded several newspapers ( Rivista italiana , Le Alpi and L'Istitutore ). In 1892 his Scritti vari appeared in Turin in 2 volumes. The publication of Galileo's case files attracted particular attention at the time. He criticized Karl von Gebler , who published a book on the subject in 1876 without having seen the original files, but made up for it soon after and published a careful edition shortly before his death (1877).

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personal data
SURNAME Berti, Domenico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian philosopher, writer and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Cumiana ( Piedmont )
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1897
Place of death Rome