Pasquale Villari Italian Historian Senator Handwritten Signed Autograph Letter + For Sale

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Pasquale Villari Italian Historian Senator Handwritten Signed Autograph Letter +:
$225.00

Villari was born inNaplesand took part in the risings of 1848 there against theBourbonsand subsequently fled toFlorence.[1]There he devoted himself to teaching and historical research in the public libraries with the object of collecting new materials onGirolamo Savonarola.[1]He published the fruits of his researches in theArchivio Storico Italianoin 1856,[2]and in 1859 he published the first volume of hisStoria di Girolamo Savonarola e de\' suoi tempi, in consequence of which he was appointed professor of history atPisa. A second volume appeared in 1861, and the work, which soon came to be recognized as an Italian classic, was translated into various foreign languages.[1]

It was followed by a work of even greater critical value,Niccolò Machiavellie i suoi tempi(1877–82). In the meanwhile Villari had left Pisa and was transferred to the chair of philosophy of history at the Institute of Studii Superiori in Florence, and he was also appointed a member of the council of education (1862). He served as a juror at theinternational exhibitionof that year inLondon, and contributed an important monograph on education inEnglandandScotland.[1]

In 1869 he was appointed under-secretary of state for education, and shortly afterwards was elected member of parliament, a position which he held for several years.[1]In 1884 he was appointed senator, and became vice-president of the senate in 1887. In 1891-1892 he was minister of education in theMarchese di Rudini\'s first cabinet, and introduced valuable reforms into the curriculum of the schools.[2]In 1893-1894 he collected a number of essays on Florentine history, originally published in the Nuova Antologia, under the title of I primi due secoli della storia di Firenze, and in 1901 he producedLe Invasioni Barbariche in Italia, a popular account in one volume of the events following the dissolution of theRoman empire.[1]

Among his other literary works may be mentioned:Saggi Critici(1868);Arte, Storia, e Filosofia(Florence, 1884);Scritti varii(Bologna, 1894); another volume ofSaggi Critici(Bologna, 1896); and a volume ofDiscussioni critiche e discorsi(Bologna, 1905), containing his speeches as president of the Dante Alighieri Society. His most important political and social essays are collected in hisLettere Meridionali ed altri scritti sulla questione sociale in Italia(Turin, 1885), andScritti sulla questione sociale in Italia(Florence, 1902).The Lettere Meridionali(originally published in the newspaperL\'Opinionein 1875) produced a deep impression, as they were the first exposure of the real conditions of southern Italy.[citation needed]Many of his works were translated into English by his wife,Linda White Mazini Villari.[1]His stepdaughter, Costanza, married the artist William Stokes Hulton. They had two daughters, Gioconda Mary Hulton and Edith Teresa Hulton. Edith Teresa Hulton became the 8th Lady Berwick of Attingham Park in Shropshire upon her marriage to Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Lord Berwick, in 1919.[3]

Pasquale Villari Italian Historian Senator Handwritten Signed Autograph Letter +

$225.00