Tommaso Fiore
Tommaso Fiore | |
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Born | [1] | 7 March 1884
Died | [1] | 4 June 1973
Occupation | Teacher, writer, politician |
Language | Italian |
Nationality | Italian |
Citizenship | Italian |
Genre | Essay |
Subject | Land reform, politics, socialism |
Notable works | |
Notable awards | Viareggio Prize |
Website | |
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Tommaso Fiore (7 March 1884 – 4 June 1973) was an Italian
Life
And everywhere walls and walls, not ten, not twenty, but more, many more, horizontally aligned on the flanks of each relief, even a few meters away, to contain the ground, to collect and hold it among so much limestone. You may wonder how those people managed to dig and align so much stone. I believe this work would have frightened a people of giants. This is the most rugged and stony Murgia; ... nothing more than the industriousness of a people of ants was needed in order to accomplish this massive work.
— Tommaso Fiore, Un popolo di formiche (1952)
Tommaso Fiore was born in a working-class family on 7 March 1884. After completing higher education in a seminary school located in
On 19 August 1909, he also joined the
He collaborated with the Italian newspaper La Rivoluzione liberale whose
On 28 July 1943, he lost his son Graziano in the massacre of via Niccolò dell'Arca, in Bari, carried out by fascists. In the aftermath of World War II, he was appointed as Latin grammar and literature teacher at the University of Bari, where he also became Provveditore degli Studi ("Superintendent of Studies"). In 1952, his book Un popolo di formiche (which means "a people of ants") won the prestigious Viareggio Prize.[5]
Works
- Fiore, Tommaso (1952). ISBN 88-87467-59-5.
- Fiore, Tommaso (1955). ISBN 88-88872-30-2.
- Tommaso Fiore (30 October 1966). "Il sacco di Altamura". Intervento al Convegno Nazionale di Studio Su Gli Albori del Risorgimento in Terra di Bari, Indetto Dal Comitato Provinciale di Bari dell'Istituto per la Storia del Risorgimento Italiano Tenutosi a Bari Nei Giorni 29, 30, 31 Ottobre 1966. Bari. inside Giuseppe Bolognese (1999). Zecher la chorban – Memoria del sacrificio. Tipografia Castellano – Altamura. pp. 59–82.
- Tommaso Fiore. "Serie di articoli". La Rivoluzione Liberale. Turin: Energie nove.
See also
References
- ^ a b Dambrosio, Giuseppe. "Tommaso Fiore grande maestro e meridionalista". Il circolo delle formiche.
- ISBN 978-88-6124-003-2. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
- ^ < "Itinerary" (PDF). siba-ese.unisalento.it.
- ^ "Per Ristudiare Il Meridionalismo di Tommaso Fiore".
- ^ a b c "Fiore, Tommaso in "Dizionario Biografico"". www.treccani.it.
- ^ gnocchini-2005, p. 123
Bibliography
- Gnocchini, Vittorio (2005). L'Italia dei liberi muratori. Rome: Mimesis. ISBN 88-8483-362-0.
External links
- Exhibition of documents and photographs, by Altamuranassociation Il circolo delle formiche
- Parco Letterario Formiche di Puglia dedicated to Tommaso Fiore