Filippo De Nobili
Filippo De Nobili (September 23, 1876 in Catanzaro-February 7, 1962 in Catanzaro) was an Italian writer.
Filippo De Nobili was also a librarian, a poet, a writer and an historian anti-fascist and anti-monarchist of Calabria.
Family
He was one of the great exponents of the family De Nobili of Catanzaro. He was the son of Carlo De Nobili (1845–1908), Baron of Magliacane, and Concetta Pugliese; he was also the grand-grandson of Carlo de Nobili (1777–1831), the first mayor of Catanzaro and Knight of Malta.
Early life
He studied at the Sapienza University of Rome, from which he was expelled in 1896 for leading a student's agitation and for having founded an anti-monarchist movement inspired by Jesus Christ. So, he attain a law degree at Messina.
The librarian anti-monarchist and anti-fascist
From 1908 until 1958 he directed the Municipal Library Filippo De Nobili in Catanzaro, succeeding his father. He known Corrado Alvaro there, when Alvaro was a high school student in Catanzaro. He joined the Associazione italiana biblioteche since it was founded in 1930. He was famous for its refusal to honor one of the Crown of Italy, in 1934, when he replied: "I should be grateful if, in exchange for the honor, I never want and do not want to, she wants to make a reasonable allowance to my Library ". He was a fervent anti-monarchist first and then an anti-fascist, he wrote for magazines of political satire under the name of "Fideno", while his father signed himself "Olrac". He laughed over publicly Benito Mussolini when he was in Catanzaro, mimicking the attitude that the Duce had when he was at the window of Piazza Venezia. Filippo De Nobili lived in the Palazzo De Nobili of Magliacane in Catanzaro.
Award
In 1959 he was awarded the gold medal of meritorious culture in Italy. He donated to the Library, which was later named after him, his books, and a vast correspondence. He has also been named a hall of the State of Catanzaro.
References
- (it) This article is partially or entirely from the Italian article of Wikipedia entitled Filippo De Nobili (it)
- De Nobili, Filippo
Further reading
- Augusto Placanica, Civiltà di Calabria: studi in memoria di Filippo De Nobili
- Guerriera Guerrieri, Un bibliotecario rimpianto (Don Pippo De Nobili)
- Giuseppe Isnardi, Filippo De Nobili (In memoriam)
- Nicola Siciliani de Cumis, Per i cento anni della Biblioteca comunale « Filippo De Nobili » di Catanzaro (1889–1989)