Tommaso Gallarati Scotti
Tommaso Fulco Gallarati Scotti , 4th Principe di Molfetta, 10th Duca di San Pietro in Galatina, 8th Marchese di Cerano (born November 18, 1878 in Milan , † June 1, 1966 in Bellagio ) was an Italian writer and diplomat .
Life
Tommaso Gallarati Scotti was the eldest son of Gian Carlo Gallarati Scotti , Principe di Molfetta, Duca di San Pietro in Galatina, and Maria Luisa Melzi d'Eril . He had Achille Ratti, later Pius XI. , to the religion teacher. In 1899 he met Antonio Fogazzaro and was involved in charitable initiatives for the benefit of emigrants, the blind and poor orphans. In 1901 he graduated from the University of Genoa with a degree in humanities .
In 1907 he was a co-founder of the newspaper Il Rinnovamento , which tried to reconcile Catholicism with modern science, which was rejected by the Catholic Church . In 1909 he became involved in journalism for the Associazione Nazionale per gli INTERESTI DEL Mezzogiorno . After Fogazzaro's death on March 7, 1911, he edited his biography La vita di Antonio Fogazzaro , which was published in 1920.
Tommaso Scotti Gallarati enlisted in World War I volunteered for the army and became a staff officer of Luigi Cadorna . In 1918 he married Contessa Aurelia Cittadella Vigodarzere.
Gallarati Scotti was one of the signatories of the Manifesto degli intellettuali antifascisti and worked for the opposition papers Il caffè and Il Popolo . Scotti accepted the Lateran Treaty , but was not enthusiastic about the Concordat between the fascist state and the Catholic Church. In 1934 he published Vita di Dante , Così sia , Miraluna , Storie di noi mortali , La confessione di Flavio Dossi and a new edition by Vita di Antonio Fogazzaro .
At the beginning of February 1939 he had an audience with Pius XI. He was permanently monitored by the Organizzazione di Vigilanza e Repressione dell'Antifascismo and found refuge in Villa Melzi in 1943 . During his exile in Switzerland he published the magazine "L'Italia e il secondo Risorgimento" with Luigi Einaudi . Winston Churchill's government placed the Catholic-liberal-anti-fascist resistance in Switzerland in the hands of Luigi Cadorna . In this setting, Tommaso Gallarati was able to convince Scotti Enrico Mattei that the Guerra di liberazione italiana was not exclusively communist. He worked on a memorandum that became the basis of the party program of the Partito Liberale Italiano .
From November 25, 1945 to October 1947, Gallarati Scotti was ambassador to Francisco Franco . From October 6, 1947 to October 19, 1951, he was Ambassador to the Court of St James’s . He wrote a biography about Alessandro Manzoni and Interpretazioni e memorie .
Scotti was buried in the chapel of Villa Melzi in Bellagio .
literature
- Nicola Raponi: GALLARATI SCOTTI, Tommaso Fulco. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 51: Gabbiani-Gamba. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1998.
Individual evidence
- ^ Emma Fattorini , Hitler, Mussolini and the Vatican: Pope Pius XI and the Speech That Was Never Made, p. 193
Web links
- Literature by and about Tommaso Gallarati Scotti in the catalog of the German National Library
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Giacomo Paolucci di Calboli |
Italian ambassador in Madrid 1945–1947 |
Benedetto Capomazza di Campolattaro |
| Nicolò Carandini |
Italian Ambassador in London 1947–1951 |
Manlio Brosio |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gallarati Scotti, Tommaso |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gallarati Scotti, Tommaso Fulco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1966 |
| Place of death | Bellagio |