Massimo Scaligero
Massimo Scaligero , pseudonym for Antonio Massimo Sgabelloni (born September 17, 1906 in Veroli , † January 26, 1980 in Rome ), was an Italian journalist , anthroposophist and writer .
Life
After the early death of his mother, Scaligero grew up with his uncle, the journalist Pietro Scabelloni. There he got to know many personalities of the Italian intellectual life early on - such as Gabriele D'Annunzio - and discovered authors such as Pascal , Stirner , Nietzsche and Sri Aurobindo in the library .
At the age of 20 he went to Julius Evola , first became his pupil and then came across the works of Rudolf Steiner ; He reported on his spiritual development in 1972 in his autobiography Dallo Yoga alla Rosacroce .
From 1932 he worked as editor-in-chief at the Italia Marinara newspaper , an organ of the Lega Navale Italiana (LNI). In 1941/42 he wrote frequently for the fascist newspaper La difesa della razza . According to his own statements, he should have tried in those years to fight racism and to give it an "ethical and symbolic content". In 1944 he was taken prisoner by the United States for six months.
From 1950 to 1978 he was editor of the magazine East and West of the "Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente" (IsMEO) in Rome, which was founded in 1933 by Giovanni Gentile and Giuseppe Tucci . Scaligero is the author of over 30 books on philosophical and esoteric subjects; five of them have so far been translated into German and published.
Works (in German)
- Logic as the adversary of man. The myth of science and the way of thinking . Introduction by Michael Kirn . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-87838-686-9
- Treatise on Living Thought. A way to overcome occidental philosophies, yoga and zen . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-87838-966-3
- The light. The discovery of the creative imagination . Afterword by Karen Swassjan . Edition Tertium, Ostfildern 1994, ISBN 3-930717-04-2
- Space and time . Edition Tertium, Ostfildern 1995, ISBN 3-930717-11-5
- Treatise on Immortal Love . Edition Tertium, Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-930717-69-7
literature
- Peter Staudenmaier: Between Occultism and Fascism: Anthroposophy and the Politics of Race and Nation in Germany and Italy, 1900–1945 . Diss., Cornell University, 2010 ( online ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Massimo Scaligero in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biographical entry in the online documentation of the anthroposophical research center Kulturimpuls
- Andreas Lichte: Hitler, Steiner, Mussolini - Anthroposophy and Fascism, yesterday and today . In: Ruhrbarone , February 24, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dallo Yoga alla Rosacroce , Rome 1972, pp. 95f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scaligero, Massimo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sgabelloni, Antonio Massimo (official name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th September 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Veroli , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1980 |
| Place of death | Rome |