Alessandro Avòli
Alessandro Avòli (1845 – June 1907) was an Italian presbyter, author, editor and teacher.[1]
Biography
Alessandro Avòli was born in Trivigliano, Rome. Following his priestly vocation, he settled in Rome where he was canon of Santa Maria in Via Lata, served as professor of Letters and then was director of the Massimiliano Massimo Institute. He was one of the most prominent exponents of the Roman Catholic movement: first as a member of the Roman Primary Society for Catholic Interests, then from 1890 active in the Italian Catholic Union, devoting himself to supporting the spread of denominational educational institutions in the capital and the defense of Catholic principles in public schools.
He was also president of the Association of Roman Catholic Teachers and in that capacity joined the Roman Diocesan Committee in 1901; he was also president of the Mutual Aid Society of Catholic school teachers.
Avòli was also particularly active in journalistic campaigns and the editorial world. From July 1881 to February 1887, he collaborated with the periodical La Rassegna italiana and, from 1894, he founded and directed until 1907 the weekly La Scuola educatrice. He also drafted a large part of the articles published in this magisterial periodical, promoted by the Roman Work of the Congress. The periodical stood out for its demand for full scholastic freedom and the defense of religious teaching in elementary school against the thesis of those who would have preferred to replace it with teaching of civil morals.
Alongside the activity of animator of the Roman Catholic school world, Avòli was also the author of numerous writings, some of literary subjects (with a particular fondness for the Giacomo Leopardi and Silvio Pellico), others destined to be used as textbooks in schools (a collection of themes which appeared in 1885 was re-edited several times; a course of books reading books for elementary school; short anthologies) and still others on school political subjects.
Alessandro Avòli died in Rome in June 1907.
Works
- Saggio di studi etimilogici comparati sopra alcune voci del dialetto alatrino (1880)
- Cenno critico sul libro La vita e le opere di G. Leopardi per Francesco Montefredini (1881)
- Monaldo Leopardi, Autobiografia (1883; edited by Alessandro Avòli)
- Giacomo Leopardi, Pompeo in Egitto (1884; edited by Alessandro Avòli)
- Errori mitologici del prof. Angelo de Gubernatis saggio critico di Cesare A. de Cara (1884)
- Lettere inedite del Leopardi e del Puccinotti (1885)
- Lettere di Ugo Foscolo a Silvio Pellico: con note e documenti (1886)
- L'istruzione mezzana classica in Italia (1887)
- Modelli di composizioni italiane (1895)
- Temi per composizioni italiane (1897)
- Alcune note sopra il libro "Quel che non si deve dire"' (1897)
Notes
- ↑ De Gubernatis, A. (1895). Piccolo dizionario dei contemporanei italiani. Roma: Forzani, p. 50.
References
- Sani, Roberto (1993). "I periodici dell'intransigentismo cattolico (1879-1904)." In: Giorgio Chiosso, ed., Scuola e stampa nell'Italia liberale. Giornali e riviste per l'educazione dall'Unità a fine secolo. Brescia: Editrice La Scuola.
