Luigi Settembrini

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Luigi Settembrini

Luigi Settembrini (born April 17, 1813 in Naples , † November 3, 1877 there ) was an Italian writer and politician .

Life

Settembrini grew up in a liberal family in Caserta , where he also attended school . From 1828 he studied in Naples law . In 1835 he became a teacher of rhetoric at a humanistic lyceum in Catanzaro . Around the same time he joined the liberal movement of Giuseppe Mazzini . In 1839 he spent three years in prison for his actions against the ruling Bourbons . Since his teaching post had been stripped from him, he kept himself afloat with private lessons and continued to work underground against the backward absolutism of the Bourbons and for the unification of Italy. After he had published an anonymous protest treaty against the royal family, he had to flee to Malta in 1847 . When an imposed constitution came into force a year later , he returned to Naples and worked for a short time in the Ministry of Education. After the new democracy was overthrown , he and several other liberals were sentenced to death in a manifestly unfair trial . The sentence was converted into a life sentence . Settembrini stayed in prison on the island of Nisida near Naples for a total of eight years .

After his release he went into exile shortly afterwards in England . In 1860 he returned to Italy and lived with his family in Florence . After the unification of Italy , he became a professor of Italian literature at the University of Naples and worked as a writer . In his main work Lezioni di letteratura italiana he declared Italian literature to be the soul of the new nation .

In 1873 the king appointed Luigi Settembrini senator for life, he was also a member of the Knightly Order of St. Mauritius and Lazarus .

Settembrini was a master from the chair of a Masonic lodge . In Thomas Mann's novel “ The Magic Mountain ” a central figure identified as a Freemason bears the name “Lodovico Settembrini”.

Works

  • Lezioni di letteratura italiana (3 volumes)

Web links

  • Entry in the Senatori d'Italia database »Senatori del Regno (1848–1943) at the Archivio Storico of the Italian Senate
  • Settembrini, Luigi. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome.
  • Entry in the Portale storico of the Camera dei deputati

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Little Encyclopedia . Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich 1950, Volume 2, p. 601
  2. ↑ Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurer Lexikon . 5th edition. 2006, Herbig Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7766-2478-6 , Lemma Settembrini, p. 780. Eva Dorothea Becker: Settembrini . In: Thomas Mann-Figurlexikon (literary dictionary) January 24, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Settembrini, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer, university professor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1877
Place of death Naples