Pilo Albertelli

Pilo Albertelli

Pilo Albertelli (born September 30, 1907 in Parma , † March 24, 1944 in Rome ) was an Italian teacher , historian of philosophy and partisan .

Life

Albertelli came from a family that lived in Parma. His father was Guido Albertelli (1867-1938), engineer and reform socialist member of parliament, his mother was Angela Gabrielli. He had two brothers, Nullo (1900–1968), also an engineer and employee of his father, and Ippolito Nievo (1901–1938), a famous cellist .

During the first years of fascism in Italy , the father narrowly escaped an attack by an action squad from Parma, which destroyed his apartment and workshop in Parma. This forced him to move to Rome with his family.

The young Albertelli began studying in Rome at the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia of the La Sapienza University . There he gained the esteem of the regime philosopher Giovanni Gentile . Because of his anti-fascist activities - he was a staunch anti-fascist, but unlike his father a liberalist and not a socialist - he was arrested in 1928 and sentenced to five years in exile. However, due to the intervention of Senator Vittorio Scialoja, the sentence was converted into less harsh tightened surveillance.

After receiving the Laurea in Lettere e Filosofia, Albertelli became a teacher of history and philosophy at the Liceo Classico Umberto I in Rome, which bears his name today. During this time he made scientific contributions to the history of the Eleatic philosophers .

In 1942 he was one of the founders of the Partito d'Azione and, since the National Socialist occupation of September 10, 1943, also participated in the organization of the Brigate Giustizia e Libertà . He was also a member of the Comitato Militare des Corpo volontari della libertà . On September 20, 1943, together with Giovanni Ricci , he laid a rapid detonator mine in the militia barracks in Parioli , which caused numerous dead and wounded and was the first partisan act in Rome.

On March 1, 1944, following a denunciation, he was arrested for his activities in the Italian resistance in Rome. He was taken to the Pensione Oltremare on via Principe Amedeo in Rome and tortured so that his body was weakened, but not his mind. The torture did not elicit the names of his comrades, but Albertelli tried twice to kill himself.

On March 20, he was therefore transferred to the Regina Coeli prison in Rome and executed on March 24, along with 335 other people, in the massacre in the Ardeatine Caves .

Awards

In 1947 he was posthumously awarded the Italian gold medal for bravery ( Medaglia d'oro al valor militare ).

The cities of Livorno , Roma and Parma have each dedicated a street and a school to him: the Pilo Albertelli primary school in Livorno and the Liceo classico Pilo Albertelli (formerly Liceo Umberto I ) in Rome, and finally in Parma there is the Istituto Comprensivo Albertelli- Newton . In the center of Parma a street is named after him and his father (strada Guido e Pilo Albertelli).

Fonts

• La dottrina parmenidea dell'essere . In: Annali della Reale Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, ser. II, 4, 1935, pp. 327-334.
• Gli Eleati. Testimonianze e frammenti . Laterza, Bari 1939. Reprinted by Arno Press, New York 1976.
• Il problema morale nella filosofia di Platone . Rome 1939.
• Rousseau . Anonima Veritas, Rome 1951.

literature

• Albertelli, Pilo. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 1:  Aaron – Albertucci. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1960.
• Vittorio Alfieri: Pilo Albertelli, filosofo e martire delle Fosse Ardeatine . Spes Edizioni, 1984.
• Ugo La Malfa, Giancarlo Tartaglia, Piero Craveri: Scritti, 1953-1958 . Fondazione Ugo La Malfa, 2003.