Umberto Zanotti Bianco

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Umberto Zanotti Bianco (born January 22, 1889 in Chania , † August 28, 1963 in Rome ) was an Italian classical archaeologist and philanthropist .

Life

He was born in Crete as the son of a diplomat from Piedmont and an English mother. He attended a church school in Moncalieri and, after contacting the writer Antonio Fogazzaro , decided to come to the aid of the inhabitants of southern Italy after the Messina earthquake in 1908 . As a result, in 1910 he was one of the founding members of the Associazione Nazionale per gli Autovermietung del Mezzogiorno d'Italia ( ANIMI ). In Messina , he made friends with Gaetano Salvemini and graduated from the University of Turin with a law degree . In 1920 he founded the Società Magna Grecia with Paolo Orsi , whom he met in 1911 , and carried out excavations with him in Sant'Angelo Muxaro , as well as in Cirò Marina and on the Sybaris plain .

After the First World War, in which he was awarded as a volunteer , he met refugees from Eastern Europe and Russia on Capri , including Maxim Gorky . In 1925 he signed an anti-fascist manifesto from Benedetto Croce . Because of his opposition to Mussolini , he was placed under police guard. In 1926 he was able to leave Italy and went to Palestine , Egypt and Transjordan , where he carried out numerous excavations. During the Second World War he was arrested by the fascist authorities in 1941 and held prisoner together with the archaeologist Paola Zancani Montuoro, with whom he had discovered a Heraion at the source of the Sele .

From 1944 to 1949 he was President of the Italian Red Cross (Croce Rossa Italiana CRI). In 1950 he was one of the first to receive the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize . In 1952 Zanotti Bianco was appointed Senator for life by Luigi Einaudi . Since 1947 he was a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei . In 1951 he became president of ANIMI . With Antonio Cederna he was one of the founders of the Italian monument and environmental protection organization Italia Nostra in 1955 , of which he became the first chairman.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Perchè Umberto Zanotti Bianco ha lasciato la Presidenza della CRI , in: Il ponte (November, 1949), pp 1428 to 1431

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personal data
SURNAME Zanotti Bianco, Umberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giorgio D'Acandia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Chania , Greece
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1963
Place of death Rome