Terenzio Mamiani

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Terenzio Mamiani
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Terenzio Mamiani della Rovere (born September 18, 1799 in Pesaro , † May 21, 1885 in Rome ) was an Italian philosopher, politician, diplomat, writer, poet and freedom fighter. As the last Count of Sant'Angelo in Lizzola , he is considered to be one of the great representatives of the Risorgimento . Terenzio Mamiani comes from a family from Parma who was raised to the rank of count by the Duke of Urbino in 1584 .

Political career

From 1827 Mamiani worked for a magazine in Florence and then went to Bologna . When the city of Bologna successfully rebelled against the papal restoration in 1831 - the Austrians had to leave their garrison - Mamiani became Minister of the Interior of the short-lived Provisional Government of the United Provinces of Italy. Mamiani had to flee from the Austrians to Paris . There the refugee had fifteen years to write down part of his extensive philosophical work. Mamiani also wrote poetry in Paris. Due to the amnesty of Pius IX. on July 17, 1846, Mamiani was able to return to Italy in 1847.

As one of the founders of the newspaper “La Lega Italiana” (see illustration on the right), he pushed the programmatic work for the independence of Italy in Genoa in 1847 - keyword: Italian wars of independence .

Mamiani was on May 4, 1848 by Pius IX. appointed Minister of the Interior and Prime Minister of the Papal States. After quarrels, Mamiani resigned on August 2nd and went to Turin , where he led a congress with Gioberti to establish an Italian confederation. But he returned to Rome after the Prime Minister of the Papal States, Pellegrino Rossi , was assassinated on November 15, and took over the post of Foreign Minister until December 23, 1848.

In early 1849 Mamiani was elected to the Constituent Assembly of the new Roman Republic . However, after the republican efforts were suppressed by a Catholic alliance, he had to leave the Papal States by a resolution of the College of Cardinals in 1849. He went back to Genoa and became a citizen of the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1855 . Here he was elected to parliament in 1856 and was promoted to Minister of Education in the last Cavour government (January 1860 - March 1861).

In the Kingdom of Italy he worked as a diplomat until 1867, including 1861–63 and 1866 as envoy to Greece and 1865 to Bern. From 1864 he was also a senator, was also Vice President of the Senate and held other high offices.

academic career

Mamiani taught rhetoric at the Turin Military Academy from 1827-28. From 1857 to 1860 and from 1871 he was professor for the philosophy of history at the Universities of Turin and Rome . Among other things, tried to mediate between the opponents modern science and the Catholic Church .

Philosophically, Mamiani was first influenced by Pasquale Galluppi and then, following Rosmini's and Gioberti's views, developed a Platonism with which he tried to bring transcendent elements into the secular climate of the newly founded Italian nation-state. In 1855 he founded the "Accademia di filosofia italica" in Genoa and in 1870 the magazine "La filosofia delle scuole italiane", which he published until his death.

Works (selection)

  • Inni Sacri. Napoli, dai Torchi del Tramater, 1833 . Everat, Paris 1832. 82 pages
  • Del rinnovamento della filosofia antica italiana , Paris 1834
  • Dell 'ontologia e del metodo , 1841, second, improved and expanded edition, Florence 1843
  • Dialoghi di Scienza Prima. Raccolti e publicati da Terenzio Mamiani. Vol.I . Libreria Europea, Paris 1846. 639 pages
  • Parnaso Italiano, Poeti Italiani Dell'eta Media, Ossia Scelta E Saggi Di Poesie, Dai Tempi Di Boccacio Al Cadere del Secolo XVIII. Baudry, Paris 1848. 636 pages
  • Scritti politici . Felice le Monnier, Florence 1853. 547 pages
  • Confessioni di un metafisico , 1865
  • Teoria della religione e dello stato , 1868
  • Le meditazioni cartesiane. Rinnovate nel secolo XIX. Successori Le Monnier, Florence 1869. 387 pages
  • Compendio e sintesi della propria filosofia , 1876 (co-editor)
  • Poeti dellʼ età media . A pamphlet on the papacy

Honors

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ Reign from the beginning of February to the end of March 1831.
  2. ↑ See also the entries under Works from the Parisian Years.

Web links

Commons : Terenzio Mamiani  - collection of images, videos and audio files

in Italian

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Italian Province Unite Italiane
  2. ↑ Ital. Accademia Reale di Torino
  3. ↑ Entry Mamiani Herders Conversations-Lexikon . Freiburg im Breisgau 1856, Volume 4, p. 85 at Zeno.org
personal data
SURNAME Mamiani, Terenzio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian philosopher, politician, writer and freedom fighter as part of the Risorgimento
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Pesaro
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1885
Place of death Rome