Emilio Bodrero

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Emilio Bodrero (born April 3, 1874 in Rome , † November 29, 1949 ibid) was an Italian professor of philosophy, politician and since 1940 professor of the history and teaching of fascism at the University of Rome. Along with Giovanni Gentile, Bodrero is considered to be the philosophical founder of fascism.

In 1895 he completed his law studies and entered the state administration as an employee of the Corte dei conti . In 1900 he completed an additional philosophy degree and the following year in the field of human sciences. His main interest was pre-Socratic philosophy, especially Empedocles , Heraclitus and Protagoras . Since 1914 he has been teaching philosophy as a private lecturer, and in the following year he won the tender for a professorship in Messina . From 1916 to 1940 he was a professor at the University of Padua , which he headed as rector in the academic year 1926/27. In 1940 he moved to the University of Rome as professor for Storia e dottrina del fascismo (History and Doctrine of Fascism), which was changed to Storia moderna on December 1, 1943 . He also translated the writings of Lucian of Samosata . Bodrero was also involved in various magazine projects: for example, he worked at Il Regno from 1903 and founded the magazine Il Carroccio in January 1909 together with Giulio De Frenzi , Maurizio Maraviglia , Vincenzo Picardi , Ercole Rivalta and Franco Savorgnan . From 1914 he wrote articles for the Milanese magazine Azione , which was nationally liberal. In 1915 he volunteered for military service, in which he rose to Capitano and received numerous awards.

In 1921, a year before the fascists came to power , he spoke out in the Idea nazionale magazine for a union of the nationalists and fascists. In 1924, he moved both in the 27th and in the 28th legislative session in which as a member of the Fascist Party Chamber of Deputies a. Ten years later, on March 1, 1934, he became a senator . He held various important positions, e.g. B. that of the Undersecretary for Education under Minister Pietro Fedele (November 1926 to July 1928), again briefly from February to May 1941 under Giuseppe Bottai , Vice President of the Italian House of Representatives (November 1929 to December 1933), President of the Association of Liberal Professions and Artist (November 1930 to December 1933). After Gentile's resignation in 1931, Bodrero became president of the Opera Montessori Nazionale .

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  • 1905 Il principio fondamentale del sistema di Empedocle
  • 1910 Empedocle
  • 1914 Protagora

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph A. Buttigieg (ed.), Antonio Gramsci - Prison Notebooks. Volume 1, p. 541. ISBN 978-0231060837
  2. ↑ Entry in the DBI
  3. ↑ Not recorded in the Chamber's database , but in the Senate's database and in the DBI
  4. ^ Cabinet list 1941 in the Portale storico of the Camera
  5. ↑ Entry in the DBI
  6. ↑ Harald Baumann, Montessori pedagogy and fascism - a response , in: Peter Heitkämper, Reinhard Fischer, Montessori pedagogy: current and international developments , Münster 2005, pp. 122–176, p. 128.
personal data
SURNAME Bodrero, Emilio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1949
Place of death Rome