Angelo Mauri

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Angelo Mauri
Minister of Agriculture
In office
July 1921 – February 2022
Prime MinisterIvanoe Bonomi
Personal details
Born21 December 1873
Milan, Kingdom of Italy
Died17 November 1936(1936-11-17) (aged 62)
Candia Lomellina, Kingdom of Italy
Political partyPeople's Party
Children11
Alma materUniversity of Genoa

Angelo Mauri (1873–1936) was an Italian journalist, economist, academic and anti-Fascist politician. He briefly served as the minister of agriculture between 1921 and 1922. Due to his anti-Fascist views and activities, he resigned from his teaching post in 1933.

Early life and education[edit]

Mauri was born in Milan on 21 December 1873.[1] His father was a school director, and his mother, Maria Tentorio, was from Como region.[1] He obtained a degree in law from the University of Genoa.[1] He also received a degree in philosophy in 1896.[1] He was part of the Catholic movement and worked for Catholic publications during his university studies.[1]

Career and activities[edit]

Mauri started his career as a journalist and established a magazine Italia nuova in 1900.[1] He served as president of the Italian Catholic University Federation from 1900 to 1904.[2] He was elected to the provincial council in Milan in 1902.[1] Mauri took part in the establishment of another Milan-based magazine entitled La Rassegna sociale of which other founders were Umberto Benigni and Filippo Meda.[2] Mauri moved to Turin in October 1903 to run a Catholic newspaper Il Momento which he held until 1906.[1] He was elected to the Parliament in 1904 becoming one of the first Catholic deputies.[3] He was close to Archbishop Giacomo Della Chiesa, future Pope Benedict XV.[4] Mauri was one of the founders the People's Party in 1919 and elected as a deputy the same year.[2][3] After the election he served as the deputy president of the Parliament.[5]

Mauri was appointed minister of agriculture in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Ivanoe Bonomi in July 1921.[3][5] The cabinet resigned in February 1922, and his tenure ended.[3][5] He and other two anti-Fascist members of the Parliament were removed from office in October 1926.[6] He worked as a professor of economics at different higher education institutions until his resignation in 1933 when the Fascist government required all university lecturers to join the National Fascist Party.[1][6]

Mauri was the author of several books on land reclamation and agronomics.[5]

Personal life and death[edit]

Mauri married Lisa Meda on 12 December 1900.[1] They had a son, and his wife died in 1903.[1] He married Maria Cappa Legora in Turin on 14 November 1904, and they had ten children.[1]

Mauri died in Candia Lomellina on 17 November 1936.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Guido Formigoni (2008). "Mauri, Angelo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 72.
  2. ^ a b c Daniela Saresella (2015). "Christianity and Socialism in Italy in the Early Twentieth Century". Church History. 84 (3): 588. doi:10.1017/S0009640715000517. S2CID 155462689.
  3. ^ a b c d "Màuri, Angelo". Treccani (in Italian).
  4. ^ John F. Pollard (2002). "The Pope, Labour, and the Tango: Work, Rest, and Play in the Thought and Action of Benedict XV (1914-22)". Studies in Church History. 37: 376. doi:10.1017/S0424208400014868. S2CID 163918339.
  5. ^ a b c d Walter Littlefield (12 February 1922). "The New Pontiff and "White International"". The New York Times. p. 97. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  6. ^ a b Giovanni Pavanelli; Giulia Bianchi (2020). "The Italian Economists as Legislators and Policymakers During the Fascist Regime". In Massimo M. Augello; Marco E.L. Guidi; Fabrizio Bientinesi (eds.). An Institutional History of Italian Economics in the Interwar Period. The Economics Profession and Fascist Institutions. Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought. Vol. 2. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 148, 153. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-38331-2_5. hdl:2318/1758060. ISBN 978-3-030-38330-5. S2CID 219882776.

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