Leone Caetani

Leone Caetani , Prince of Teano and Duke of Sermoneta (born September 12, 1869 in Rome , † December 25, 1935 in Vancouver ), was an Italian historian in the field of early Islam .

Leone Caetani (1915)

From 1909 to 1913 he was a member of the Camera dei deputati . In 1911 he voted with the Socialists against the attack on Libya , but his renewed candidacy in the 1913 elections was unsuccessful. After Italy entered the First World War in 1915, he served as an artillery officer on the Cadore Front , but was dismissed for health reasons before the end of the war. Opponent of fascism, in 1924 he set up the Fondazione Caetani per gli studi musulmani under the umbrella of the Accademia dei Lincei , of which he was a corresponding member since 1911 and a full member since 1919, in order to keep his library and the materials he collected for long-term research to secure. In 1927 at the latest, he left Italy to settle in Canada, where he had acquired an estate in Vernon . Since Caetani had assumed Canadian citizenship, his Italian citizenship was revoked in April 1935, whereby he also lost his membership in the Academy. After the centenary celebrations in 1969, the foundation was revived as Fondazione Leone Caetani in 1971.

Fonts

• Leone Caetani: Annali dell'Islam , Milan-Rome, U. Hœpli-Fondazione Caetani della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, 1906–1926, 10 volumes (reprinted by Georg Olms, New York, 1972).
• Leone Caetani: Studi di storia orientale , Milan, U. Hœpli, 1911–1914.
• La funzione dell'Islam nell'evoluzione della Civiltà , in Scientia , Vol XI, Anno VI, 1912, XXIII-3, Zanichelli, Bologna.

literature

• Francesco Gabrieli :  Caetani, Leone. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 16:  Caccianiga-Caluso. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1973.

Web links

• Entry in the Portale storico of the Camera dei deputati