Luciano Banchi

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Luciano Banchi

Luciano Banchi (born December 27, 1837 in Radicofani , † December 4, 1887 in Siena ) was an Italian politician and archivist .

biography

Luciano Banchi, son of Luigi and his second wife Barbera Modesti, spent his childhood in Arezzo , Pisa - where he studied at a private institute founded by Antonio Guadagnoli - after his father took office as postal director - and in Siena in 1848 at the age of 11. Luigi died in 1850, leaving his family in great poverty. Nevertheless, the widow, Luciano and her second son Vittorio, managed to study and left their training to the piarists of the Collegio Tolomei . While Luciano had begun to study the classics, the French and German languages, and was devoting himself to university studies, his brother Vittorio himself joined the Piarist order and therefore devoted himself to education as a Piarist for the rest of his life. Luciano Banchi enrolled in the notary's course at the University of Siena in 1854 and was able to deepen his studies in the legal field. During these years he became part of a small liberal society of students that combined the ideals of the Risorgimento with demands for literary dramaturgy (the Amici callofili ), and in this context he wrote, among other things, a drama ( Giovacchino Murat ), which was performed in 1857 by the Police was banned. At the same time he worked in the local magazine Indicatore senese , under the anagram Labano Cinuchi published articles that sometimes revealed revolutionary positions.

After his professional qualification, Banchi joined the municipal office of Montalcino as deputy finance secretary on August 5, 1859, and a month later - at the request of director Filippo Luigi Polidori - was transferred as sotto archivista to the Siena State Archives, which was set up on November 17 of the previous year. Indeed, since joining the State Archives, Luciano Banchi has been in charge of the bundling and sorting of the collections of documents that entered the Palazzo Piccolomini in the early 1860s. After Polidori's death, he became deputy director of the archive in 1865 and director from 1875 to 1887. Luciano Banchi's activity initially followed the theoretical and practical approach practiced in Tuscany by Francesco Bonaini , with a division between the documentation of the Republic and the Grand Duchy . After Luciano Banchi had revised this approach, he began to reorganize the documents from 1865 under the sign of the institutional continuity that had shaped the Sienese magistrates until the beginning of the 19th century. The results of the work were presented in 1883 in the report on the Italian archives ( Relazione sugli archivi italiani) published by the Ministry of the Interior .

In parallel to his work as an archivist, Luciano Banchi has done intensive work in the political field. He helped shape an entire phase of Sienese history in the 2nd and 3rd decades after the unification of Italy. Having participated in the formation of a unique anti-clerical liberal group in 1865, he was the protagonist of a split from the progressive part of the party in 1867 and in clear opposition to the conservative wing. Elected to the local council in July 1867, he was appointed councilor the following October and mayor of Siena in January 1870, a position he held until the following October. In December 1871 he was appointed head of the orphanage by the local council, a position he held continuously until his death. When he was reappointed a council member in 1872, during a period of great uncertainty in the local administration, due to the resignation of the incumbent Federico Comini, he assumed the position of mayor for about a year. Between 1873 and 1886 he was a member of the Provincial Council and from 1880 to 1883 Vice-President. He was elected several times in the Chiusi district and represented the Cetona community . Then in 1873 he was appointed a member of the deputies of Monte dei Paschi by the city council of Siena , where he was elected president, an office which he held until 1877. In 1876 he was confirmed as a city councilor with 854 votes out of 1,072, and in June 1877 he was appointed mayor by the government. In the same year he received the position of the board of directors of the State Institute for Fine Arts, which existed until 1881.

During this period Banchi also became President of the Department of Literature and History of the Accademia dei Rozzi , President of the Accademia dei Fisiocritici, President of the Società di mutuo soccorso . appointed employee of the Conservatorio di Santa Maria Maddalena , member of the Società di esecutori di pie disposizioni , administrator of the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala and President of the Società economica del lavoro . In January 1878, Luciano Banchi married the 24-year-old Giuseppina Brini, who comes from Barberino Val d'Elsa, from whom he had his daughter Barbera, the eldest of two other children, Luigi and Eulalia, in December of the same year. After he had temporarily withdrawn from political life, he agreed to apply again to the city council in 1880, to which he was elected with 672 out of 1,131 votes. After serving as mayor, he was reappointed by the government as head of the city council of Siena in March 1881 and confirmed in office twice until the year of his death. After a cerebral hemorrhage in May 1887, he resigned from the city's highest office in September. He was buried in the family grave in the Misericordia cemetery.

Works

Breve degli officiali del comune di Siena , 1866

archivist

Some of Luciano Banchi's documents are in the Archivio storico del Comune di Siena . The collection consists of 13 letters signed by Giosuè Carducci to Luciano Banchi (July 14, 1859 - February 18, 1882) and donated in 2006 by Giovanni Banchi, a descendant of Luciano. The friendship between Banchi and Carducci began in 1859. Carducci came repeatedly to Siena in the following years (summer 1863, 1871, 1875 and 1894). In particular, he was the guest of Luciano Banchi in 1875 in his house, the Palazzo Bellugi (today number 45) in Casato di Sotto. A plaque on the facade has been a reminder of his apartment since 1939. The documents in question, together with the letters sent from Banchi to Carducci and kept in the Casa Carducci in Bologna, were the subject of a special edition edited by Giulia Barbarulli, which was also based on the previous "Edizione nazionale delle lettere di Giosuè Carducci" and by Verlag Zanichelli was published between 1938 and 1968.

Another collection by Luciano Banchi is in the Biblioteca degli intronati in Siena and consists of manuscripts, private correspondence and his personal library. By resolution of the municipal council of October 23, 1888, the municipality of Siena approved the purchase of Luciano Banchi's “library” and entrusted its maintenance to the Biblioteca comunale . At the time of the transfer of the material (March 29, 1889) a “Catalogo della Libreria del fu comm. Luciano Banchi ”(library archive XX.32), which contains an appendix (library archive XX.32 bis) to an earlier catalog dated August 29, 1888 and signed by widow Giuseppina Brini and librarian Fortunato Donati.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Banchi Luciano ( it ) Retrieved June 2, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Banchi Luciano Estremi cronologici: 1859 - 1868 ( it ) Retrieved June 3, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b [ http://siusa.archivi.beniculturali.it/cgi-bin/pagina.pl?TipoPag=comparc&Chiave=320329 Banchi Luciano Estremi cronologici: 1855 - 1865] ( it ) Retrieved June 3, 2019.

literature

  • Ricordo di Luciano Banchi . Tip. dell'Ancora, Siena 1888 (Italian).
  • Zdekauer L .: Saggio d'una bibliografia storica senese moderna (1854-1900) . In: Bullettino senese di storia patria . VIIIDatum = 1901, p. 361-379 . (Italian).
  • Fusai G .: Un amico senese di Giosuè Carducci . In: Società e cultura . tape XIV , 1938, p. 328-333 (Italian).
  • Cecchini G .: Luciano Banchi . In: Rassegna degli Archivi di Stato . tape XVII , 1957, p. 175-180 (Italian).
  • Barbarulli Giulia: Luciano Banchi. Uno storico al governo di Siena nell'Ottocento . Comune di Siena, Siena 2002 (Italian).

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personal data
SURNAME Banchi, Luciano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Radicofani
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1887
Place of death Siena