Agostino Lanzillo
Agostino Lanzillo | |
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Member of the Italian Parliament for Lombardy | |
In office 24 May 1924 – 21 January 1929 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Reggio Calabria, Italy | 31 October 1886
Died | 3 March 1952 Milan | (aged 65)
Political party | National Fascist Party |
Alma mater | University of Rome |
Agostino Lanzillo (31 October 1886 – 3 March 1952) was an Italian revolutionary
Early life
Agostino Lanzillo was born in Reggio Calabria on 31 October 1886 to Salvatore and Giuseppina (Cosile) Lanzillo. Agostino attended primary school and secondary school in his hometown. He acquired a law degree from the University of Rome and wrote his thesis on the socialist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.[1]
Political career
Revolutionary syndicalist period
Lanzillo was drawn to revolutionary syndicalism and became a follower of Georges Sorel. Lanzillo wrote:
The importance of Sorel in socialist historiography is in my opinion close to that of Marx and Engels
— Agostino Lanzillo, Giorgio Sorel nella storiografia, Il divenire sociale[2]
Lanzillo corresponded personally with Sorel,[3] and published in 1910 the first biography of Sorel.[4] Lanzillo also contributed to the syndicalist journals Avanguardia Socialista and Il divenire sociale.
National syndicalist period
In 1909,
Fascist period
Lanzillo was among the founders of the fascist movement,[6] and was a member of National Fascist Party.
Lanzillo was a member of
Lanzillo was also a member of the one-party National Council of Corporations in 1931.
Academic career
In 1921 Lanzillo was a lecturer in political economy at University of Rome. In 1922 he became a professor of political economy at the Royal University of Milan and in 1923 he became a professor at the University of Cagliari.[8] Later, Lanzillo was appointed rector of Royal Advanced Institute of Economics and Commerce in Venice.
Writings
- La disfatta del socialismo: Critica della guerra e del socialismo. Florence: Libreria della Voce, 1919.
- Le Mouvement ouvrier en Italie. Paris: Revière, n. d. [1910].
References
- ISBN 0-313-29899-8.
- ISBN 0-691-03289-0.
- ISBN 9780801894275.
- ISBN 0-691-03289-0.
The first biography of Sorel, by Agostino Lanzillo, appeared in Italy in 1910.
- ISBN 0-313-29899-8.
- ISBN 0-691-03289-0.
The Fascist movement was founded by Mussolini in Milan at a meeting in the Piazza San Sepolcro on 23 March 1919. Among the founding members were several eminent revolutionary syndicalist leaders such as Agostino Lanzillo.
- ^ "Agostino Lanzillo". Camera dei deputati Portale Storico (in Italian). Retrieved 4 May 2012.
- ISBN 0-313-29899-8.