Giulio Salvadori (; 14 September 1862 in
Monte San Savino
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– 7 October 1928 in
Rome
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Lazio
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) was an Italian
poet
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,
literary critic and
educator.
Life
Salvadori was educated at the
Sapienza University of Rome
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, where he became a friend of
Gabriele d'Annunzio. In 1885, he converted to
Roman Catholic
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ism, leading to a parting of the ways from d'Annunzio.
[M. Gianturco, ''Giulio Salvadori'' (Milan, 1930)]
Salvadori first taught in high schools, then became an assistant professor at the University of Rome. He was never a full professor there, which was perhaps due to the fact that the state authorities made such appointments and were strongly
anticlerical
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and reluctant to appoint intellectual Christians.
[D. Mattalia, 'Giulio Salvadori', in '' Nuova Italia'', December 1934]
In 1923, Father
Agostino Gemelli
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, the new
Chancellor of the
Catholic University of Milan
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, persuaded Salvadori to join him there, where he was appointed Professor of Italian Language and Literature and went on to become
Dean
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of the
Humanities
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faculty. In 1928, he returned to Rome as chairman of the Final Examinations Committee, but died suddenly on 7 October. He was entombed in the church of
Santa Maria in Aracoeli
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on the
Capitoline Hill
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.
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Pope Pius X entrusted Salvadori with the revision of the Catechism in ]Italian
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As a poet, his principle works include ''Minime'' (1882), ''Il Canzoniere civile'' (1889, or ''The Civil Songbook''), and ''Ricordi dell'Umile Italia'' (1918, ''Remember Poor Italy'').][
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1862 births
1928 deaths
Italian poets
Italian male poets
Italian literary critics
Italian journalists
Italian male journalists
Italian educational theorists
People from Monte San Savino
Secular Franciscans
Italian Servants of God
Sapienza University of Rome alumni