Liceo Colombo

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Liceo Classico e Linguistico Statale “Cristoforo Colombo”
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type of school high school
founding 16th Century
address

Via Dino Bellucci 2

place Genoa
Metropolitan city GenoaTemplate: Infobox School / Maintenance / ISO 2 !
Country Italy
Coordinates 44 ° 24 '54 "  N , 8 ° 55' 42"  E Coordinates: 44 ° 24 '54 "  N , 8 ° 55' 42"  E
carrier state
student about 700
management Enrico Bado
Website www.liceocolombogenova.gov.it

The Liceo Classico e Linguistico Statale Cristoforo Colombo is the oldest grammar school in Genoa and one of the most important state schools in the Liguria region . It was founded by the Jesuits in the 16th century and has a humanistic profile and, since 2015, an additional modern language profile. The institution is named after Christopher Columbus .

location

The Liceo Colombo high school is located in the north-western part of the historical center of Genoa, in Via Dino Bellucci 2. It is housed in premises from the 16th century around the former main monastery of the Observants . A preserved cloister , for example, is characteristic . City architect Andrea Ceresola , known as Il Vannone, is an architect according to some attributions. Neighbors of the school are u. a. the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato ( Piazza della Nunziata ) as well as the Palazzo Durazzo-Pallavicini and the Palazzo dell'Università di Genova (both Via Balbi ).

A branch of the school is located in the north-eastern district of Marassi at Via Canevari 51. Opposite is the Sampdoria football stadium Stadio Luigi Ferraris ( Via Giovanni de Prà ). Not far from there is the Genova Brignole train station ( Piazza Verdi ), which has a Metropolitana connection.

history

The origins of the Liceo Colombo go back to the 16th century. In the course of the Counter-Reformation , a Jesuit college was also established in the Genoese capital in the form of a Konvikt , which was attached to the priority of the educational Catholic religious order of the Jesuits .

With the repeal of the Jesuit order by Pope Clement XIV in 1773, the college located in Via Balbi was confiscated by the Senate of the Republic of Genoa and handed over to the University of Genoa , with the premises being used by the Collegio Soleri from then on . After the French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte had finally annexed Genoa in 1805, the school was re-established as Collegio Imperiale by decree in 1808 (based on the educational ideals of the French Revolution ) from the Christian colleges Invrea , Soleri , Durazzo and Soldatini . In 1812 the college moved into the Genoese monastery building Annunziata.

With the fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont established itself , and restoration began, so that in 1816 the Lyceum was transformed into a royal Savoyard high school. This was initially entrusted to the Somaskan religious order . Giovanni Domenico Ruffini published the novel Lorenzo Benoni (1853), which is based on his personal school impressions from 1818 to 1822. In 1833/34 there were lawsuits against former students who organized around the secret society Young Italy . Coming from the Spanish coast, a cholera epidemic spread in Genoa in 1836 , which is why the college was closed as a precaution. In 1837 the rehabilitated Jesuits took over the administration of the Palazzo Doria Tursi .

During the First Italian War of Independence (1848/49) the school was closed again. In the Sardinian War , d. H. the Second Italian War of Independence (1849), the college served the French troops as a field hospital . After the school management became independent from the college in 1860, the school was named after the national poet Dante Alighieri one year later, and thus in the course of the unification of Italy . Until 1884 the Lyceum remained the only grammar school in Genoa. On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America in 1892, it was given its current name Cristoforo Colombo , named after the Genoese navigator Christopher Columbus . Since then, a Columbus statue made of Carrara marble by Rivalta's pupil Francesco Caroni has been erected in the arcade courtyard , the price being around 4,300 Italian lira . The ancient historian Giovanni Oberziner gave one of the two speeches. Among those who fell in World War I (from 1915 to 1918) were 39 former students and teachers who fought on the side of the Entente .

With the school reform in 1923 under the fascist Minister of Education Giovanni Gentile , the school became a humanistic grammar school ( Liceo Classico ). A new language profile ( Liceo Linguistico ) has been added since the 2015/16 school year . In the ancient language profile, Latin and ancient Greek are taught.

Library

The Liceo Colombo has a library with around 10,000 volumes.

Alumni

Former teachers

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ L'istituto superiore si presenta , guidascuole.net, accessed on September 5, 2018.
  2. ↑ Information on the exact date of foundation varies (1533, 1554 or 1573): Lavori per la sicurezza al Liceo Colombo , primocanale .it, March 20, 2008 and Bruno Aloi: Francesco Caroni “Monumento a Cristoforo Colombo” , cristoforocolombo.com, 31. January 2017; La Scuola , liceocolombo.genova.it, accessed September 7, 2018; Storia , convittocolombo.gov.it, accessed September 7, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b Bruno Aloi: Francesco Caroni “Monumento a Cristoforo Colombo” , cristoforocolombo.com, January 31, 2017.