Giovanni Cassandro
Giovanni Cassandro | |
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Born | Giovanni Italo Cassandro 21 April 1913 |
Died | 10 October 1989 |
Alma mater | Bari |
Occupation(s) | Archivist Legal historian Liberal activist Politician University professor Judge |
Political party | PLI |
Spouse | Rachele Nicolini |
Children | Giorgia Cassandro |
Parent(s) | Michele Cassandro (1876-1962) Francesca Catapano |
Giovanni Cassandro (21 April 1913 - 10 October 1989) was an Italian
Biography
Giovanni Italo Cassandro was born in Barletta, an ancient coastal town a short distance to the north-west of Bari. Michele Cassandro (1876-1962), his father, was a school languages teacher, schools inspector and the author of various published historical studies on local topics.[4] He was still exceptionally young when he graduated from the University of Bari in 1933 with a degree in Jurisprudence.[1]
Directly after graduating he competed in the national exam for a management position with the National Archives department, achieving the top position on the results list. In 1934 he accepted a posting by the department to Venice.[3] This gave him the opportunity to get to know the historian-politician Roberto Cessi who had himself worked at the Venice Archives Department between 1908 and 1920, and was now based at the nearby University of Padua as professor of medieval and modern history. He was also able to become well acquainted with the medievalist historian Gino Luzzatto. Cassandro would always acknowledge a huge debt to both men whose history teaching and antifascist advocacy during Cassandro's two and a half years in Venice represented a far more appealing form of university-level further education than he would have received by staying in a university and working for a doctorate. There was at least one respect in which he was even more deeply indebted to the (originally) Neapolitan historian-philosopher and literary critic Fausto Nicolini whom also befriended him during this period. In or before 1936 Giovanni Cassandro married Rachele Nicolini, the daughter of this much respected mentor.[3][5] In 1936 he moved to Naples, taking an equivalent management position with the Archives department there to the one he had been fulfilling in Venice. Naples was the home city of his newly acquired father-in law, Fausto Nicolini, and he continued to be hugely influenced by Nicolini both on a personal level and with regard to his on-going academic research. He had already published a number of historical studies even before 1933, but on his arrival in Naples, surrounded by the vast repository of material held at the archive, Cassandro embarked on a life-long study of the region identified, before 1860, as the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.[3][5]
It was also in
1947 marked a decisive move from politics into the mainstream universities sector for Giovanni Cassandro, who had been taking work as a free-lance teacher since 1938. He now entered and won a competition enabling him to take up a position as Professor for Italian Law at the University of Bari law faculty.[1][2][9] In 1955 he was elected to membership of the new Constitutional Court, sworn in on 15 December 1955 as one of the court's fifteen judges. The mandate lasted for twelve years,[a] and he served out his full term, retiring from the judiciary on 15 December 1967.[10] He had retained close links with the University of Bari throughout his twelve year judicial mandate,[9] but in 1967 he transferred to the Sapienza University of Rome, where he held a professorship in Legal history till 1983.[1][3]
Recognition
Notes
- ^ In 1967 the term of office for judges of the Italian Constitutional Court was reduced from 12 years to 9 years.
References
- ^ a b c d Adriana Campitelli (1990). "In Memoriam Giovanni Cassandro" (PDF). Archivio Storico Pugliese. Emeritco Semoseria Brindisi. pp. 317–319. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- ^ a b c d "21 Aprile 1913 – Nasce Giovanni Cassandro". Le Lucerne S.r.l. (Massime del Passato), Milano. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f Domenico Maffei (1991). "Giovanni Cassandra storico del diritto" (PDF). Studi in memoria di Giovanni Cassandro. Ministero per i beni culturali e ambientali ufficio centrale per i beni archivisti. pp. xiii–xxii. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- ^ Esther Larosa (compiler) (2001). "Cassandro Michele: Insegnante - Storico" (PDF). Bibliotheche e scrittori illustri a Barlette. Centro Regionale Servizi Educativi Culturali Barletta. pp. 70–74. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- ^ a b Esther Larosa (compiler) (2001). "Cassandro Giovanni Italo: Giudice -Storico" (PDF). Bibliotheche e scrittori illustri a Barlette. Centro Regionale Servizi Educativi Culturali Barletta. pp. 63–67. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Fabio Grassi Orsini; Gerardo Nicolosi. "Partito liberale italiano – Dalla riorganizzazione del Pli al VI congresso di Firenze (1943-1953)". Biblioteca liberale. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
- ^ Giuseppe Sircana (1988). "Cattani, Leone". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Treccani, Roma. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
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- ^ a b "Premio G. Cassandro per gli Studi in Storia del Diritto". Premi. Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
- ^ "CASSANDRO prof. avv. Giovanni". Giudici costituzionali dal 1956. Corte costituzionale, Piazza del Quirinale 41, Roma. Archived from the original on 2012-02-03. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
- ^ "Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana". Cenni storici e normativa dell'onorificenza. Presidenza della Repubblica. 5 June 1956. Retrieved 3 November 2020.