Pietro Orsi

Pietro Orsi (born April 16, 1863 in Acqui , Piedmont ; † 1946 in Venice ) was an Italian modern historian and Podestà of Venice from 1926 to 1929, i.e. not elected (Sindaco), but mayor appointed by the fascists .

Life

Pietro Orsi came from a noble family of the Piedmontese Monregalese in Acqui . In 1884 he completed his training and initially taught at a lyceum in Potenza . He worked as a freelance lecturer at the University of Padua , where he taught Storia moderna . His publications include works on Cavour , one of which has also been translated into English. He later taught at the University of Venice . From 1912 to 1913 he sat in the Roman Parliament. During the First World War , his son Gustavo was killed in 1916 on the Coni Zugna (1865 m) in Trentino .

In 1919 or 1920, together with Davide Giordano and Giovanni Battista Giuriati, he founded the Alleanza nazionale group , of which Giordano was president. The latter was elected Italy's first fascist mayor in 1920 .

With the installation of the dictatorship under Benito Mussolini on January 3, 1925, the fascists gained almost unlimited power in Italy. With a law of February 4, 1926, the authoritarian principles of governance were also implemented at the local level, ie the decisive bodies and persons could no longer be freely chosen, but were set up by the regime. The tasks that the Sindaco , the Giunta and the Consiglio comunale had performed up to then have now been transferred to the new office of the Podestà . This man, who was appointed for five years, was assisted by a purely advisory institution, the Consulta municipale . At the same time, municipal autonomy was curtailed and the prefect's powers expanded. On December 16, 1926, King Pietro Orsi formally raised to Podestà. In the Consulta municipale sat men like Gino Damerini , Vittorio Cini , to whom the Cini Foundation on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore goes back, and Giovanni Giuriati .

Orsi, like the fascist party of Venice as a whole, advocated the veneration of the Republic of Venice and its foreign policy and military successes. In 1927, Enrico Dandolo , who had succeeded in subjugating Zara from 1202 to 1204, and having Constantinople conquered by an army of crusaders, received an inscription in Istanbul's Hagia Sophia with the wording: “Venetiarum inclito Duci Henrico Dandolo in hoc mirifico templo sepulto MCCV / Eius patriae haud immemores cives MCMXXVII ”. This was done with the full consent of Mussolini. In 1928 Orsi became President of the Biennale .

The prison of Santa Maria Maggiore was established under Orsi, and the La Nuova Italia publishing house was founded in August . Under his successor Ettore Zorzi (from October 1929) the industrial complex Mestre - Marghera in Greater Venice was included, which the fascists built by expanding the city to the mainland and still autonomous islands.

Orsi became a senator in 1934 .

Works

• I veri antenati di Manin , in: Nuova Antologia.
• Cavour. Con 25 ritratti e fototipia , Sandron, Milan, Palermo, Naples [1910].
• Cavour e la formazione del Regno d'Italia , Turin 1913.

literature

• Commemorazione del membro effettivo Co. Pietro Orsi , in: Atti dell'Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti 105 (1948) pp. 20f. (Obituary).

Remarks

1. ^ Cavour. Con 25 ritratti e fototipia , Sandron, Milan, Palermo, Naples [1910], and Cavour e la formazione del Regno d'Italia , Turin 1913.
2. ↑ Pino Boero, Federica Merlanti, Andrea Aveto (eds.): Lettere a “La riviera ligure” III, 1910-1912 , Rome 2003, p. 101, note 1.
3. ↑ Kate Ferris: Everyday Life in Fascist Venice, 1929-40 , Palgrave Macmillan 2012, p. 38.
4. ↑ Rassegna storica del risorgimento 30 (1943)
5. ↑ Edoardo Savino: La nazione operant. Albo d'oro del fascismo, profili e figure , Istituto geografico De Agostini 1937, p. 325.
6. ^ Andrea Da Mosto: I Dogi di Venezia nella vita pubblica e privata , A. Martello-Giunti, Florence 1977, p. 77.
7. ↑ DANDOLO, Enrico , Treccani.