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VILLARI, PASQUALE (1827- )

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VILLARI, PASQUALE (1827- ) , See also:Italian historian and statesman, was See also:born at See also:Naples on the 3rd of See also:October 1827. He studied together with See also:Luigi la Vista under See also:Francesco de See also:Sanctis. He was implicated in the riots of the 15th of May 1848 at Naples, against the See also:Bourbon See also:government, and had to takerefuge in See also:Florence. There he devoted himself to teaching and See also:historical See also:research in the public See also:libraries, and in 1859 he published the first See also:volume of his See also:Scoria di See also:Girolamo See also:Savonarola e de' suoi tempi, in consequence of which he was appointed See also:professor of See also:history at See also:Pisa. A second volume appeared in 1861, and the See also:work, which soon came to be recognized as an Italian classic, was translated into various See also:foreign See also:languages. It was followed by a work of even greater See also:critical value, Niccolb See also:Machiavelli e i suoi tempi (1877-82). In the mean-while Villari had See also:left Pisa and was transferred to the See also:chair of See also:philosophy of history at the See also:Institute of Studii Superiori in Florence, and he was also appointed a member of the See also:council of See also:education (1862). He served as a juror at the See also:international See also:exhibition of that See also:year in See also:London, and contributed an important monograph on education in See also:England and See also:Scotland. In 1869 he was appointed under-secretary of See also:state for education, and shortly afterwards was elected member of See also:parliament, a position which he held for several years. In 1884 he was nominated senator, and in 1891-92 he was See also:minister of education in the Marchese di Rudini's first See also:cabinet. In 1893-94 he collected a number of essays on Florentine history, originally published in the Nuns Antologia, under the See also:title of I primi due secoli della scoria di Firenze, and in 1901 he produced Le Invasioni barbariche in Italia, a popular See also:account in one volume of the events following the See also:dissolution of the See also:Roman See also:empire. All 'these See also:works have been translated into See also:English by the historian's wife, Linda See also:White Villari.

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side of Villari's activity was his See also:interest in the See also:political and social problems of the See also:day; and although never identified with any political party, his speeches and writings have always commanded considerable public See also:attention. Among his other See also:literary works may be mentioned: Saggi Critici (1868) ; Arte, Storia, e Filosofia (Florence, 1884) ; Scritti varii (See also:Bologna, 1894) ; another volume of Saggi Critici (Bologna, 1896) ; and a volume of Discussioni critiche e discorsi (Bologna, 1905), containing his speeches as See also:president of the See also:Dante Alighieri Society. His most important political and social essays are collected in his Lettere Meridionali ed attri scritti See also:sulla questione sociale in Italia (See also:Turin, 1885), and Scritti sulla questione sociale in Italia (Florence,'19o2). The Lettere Meridionali (originally published in the newspaper L'Opinione in 1875) produced a deep impression, as they were the first exposure of the real conditions of See also:southern See also:Italy. A selection of Villari's essays, translated by his wife, has been published in England (1907). See also Francesco Baldasseroni, Pasquale Villari (Florence, 1907).

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