Giovanni Bovio

Giovanni Bovio

Giovanni Bovio (born February 6, 1837 in Trani , † April 15, 1903 in Naples ) was an Italian philosopher and politician of the Partito Repubblicano Italiano .

Life

Giovanni Bovio studied law, completed his habilitation in Naples as a private lecturer in legal philosophy and was appointed associate professor there in 1879 and full professor in 1892. Since 1876 he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy , where he made himself felt through his radical views and eloquence. While on the one hand he joined the Irredenta , of which he became vice-president, he attacked the Pope and the Church violently and offended even the left. He took a great part in the agitation for universal suffrage and the abolition of the guarantee laws. He published several esteemed legal works. Best known is the ingenious writing Uomini e tempi (Naples 1879), which illuminated the political situation in Italy with impartiality and sharpness.

Works

• Corso di scienza del diritto , 1877
• Saggio critico del diritto penale e del fondamento etico , 2nd edition, Naples 1877
• Sistema di filosofia
• Scritti litterari
• Scheme del naturalismo matematico
• Discorsi politici
• Uomini e tempi , Naples 1879
• Scritti filosofici e politici , 1883
• Sommario della storia dell'diritto in Italia , 1884
• Giordano Bruno , 1887
• Filosofia del diritto , 4th ed. 1894
• Il genio , Milan 1899
• Il naturalismo , 1903

literature

• Giovanni Bovio . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 3, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 287.
• Alfonso Scirocco:  Bovio, Giovanni. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 13:  Borremans – Brancazolo. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1971.

Web links

• Entry in the Portale storico of the Camera dei deputati