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Giustino Fortunato (4 September 1848 – 23 July 1932) was an Italian historian and politician.


Biography

He was born in
Rionero in Vulture Rionero in Vulture ( aae, Arrionero) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Potenza, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. It is located on the slopes of Monte Vulture in the northern part of the region. The village was founded and ...
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), from a bourgeois family. His great-uncle Giustino Fortunato (1777-1862) was the prime minister of the
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ( it, Regno delle Due Sicilie) was a kingdom in Southern Italy from 1816 to 1860. The kingdom was the largest sovereign state by population and size in Italy before Italian unification, comprising Sicily and a ...
from 1849 to 1852. Fortunato studied at the Jesuit College and then studied law at the university in
Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's admin ...
. After the degree, he founded the journals ''Unità Nazionale'' and ''Patria''. In May 1880, he was elected to the
Italian Chamber of Deputies The Chamber of Deputies ( it, Camera dei deputati) is the lower house of the bicameral Italian Parliament (the other being the Senate of the Republic). The two houses together form a perfect bicameral system, meaning they perform identical funct ...
. Fortunato, along with other politician like
Pasquale Villari Pasquale Villari (3 October 1827 – 11 December 1917) was an Italian historian and politician. Early life and publications Villari was born in Naples and took part in the risings of 1848 there against the Bourbons and subsequently fled to Fl ...
, Francesco Saverio Nitti, Gaetano Salvemini formed a group of socio-political thinker called “meridionalisti” (“southernists”), in order to solve the economic problems of southern Italy after the
Italian unification The unification of Italy ( it, Unità d'Italia ), also known as the ''Risorgimento'' (, ; ), was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in the consolidation of different states of the Italian Peninsula into a single ...
. Fortunato and others made the strong claim that the economic policies of the central government of the new state discriminated against the interests of the south while favoring those of north. In his last years he moved away from his native country because of misunderstanding of his fellow citizens and two incidents that showed the ingratitude of the people, such as in 1917, when he was stabbed by a farmer in Rionero, which accused him of having supported the
war War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular o ...
. Fortunato died in Naples at the age of 83.


Works

*''Ricordi di Napoli'', Milano, Treves, (1874). *''I Napoletani del 1799'', Firenze, G. Barbèra, (1884). *''Santa Maria di Vitalba'', Trani, V. Vecchi, (1898). *''Rionero medievale'', Trani, V. Vecchi, (1899). *''Notizie storiche della Valle di Vitalba'', 6 voll., Trani, V. Vecchi, (1898–1904). *''Il Mezzogiorno e lo Stato italiano. Discorsi politici, 1880-1910'', 2 voll., Bari, Laterza, (1911). *''Pagine e ricordi parlamentari'', I, Bari, Laterza, 1920; II, Firenze, A. Vallecchi, (1927). *''Riccardo da Venosa e il suo tempo'', Trani, Vecchi e C., (1918). *''Rileggendo Orazio'', in "Nuova Antologia", (1924). *''Le strade ferrate dell'Ofanto, 1880-97'', Firenze, Vallecchi, (1927). *''Carteggio tra Giustino Fortunato e Umberto Zanotti-Bianco'', Roma, Collezione meridionale editrice, (1972). *''Carteggio'', Roma-Bari, Laterza, (1978–1981). *''Giustino Fortunato e il Senato. Carteggio, 1909-1930'', Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, (2003).


Honors

*
Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus The Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus ( it, Ordine dei Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro) (abbreviated OSSML) is a Roman Catholic dynastic order of knighthood bestowed by the royal House of Savoy. It is the second-oldest order of knighthood in the wo ...
, Commander, 1891Senato della Repubblica: Giustino Fortunato
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