Roberto Cessi
Born(1885-08-20)20 August 1885
Rovigo, Kingdom of Italy
Died19 January 1969(1969-01-19) (aged 83)
Padua, Republic of Italy
OccupationHistorian, politician, writer
Alma materUniversity of Padua
GenreHistory
SubjectRepublic of Venice, Veneto, Martin Luther

Roberto Cessi (20 August 1885 – 19 January 1969)[1] was an Italian historian and politician, specializing in Venetian history.[2]

Biography

He was born in Rovigo,[3] to painter Riccardo Cessi and Clementina Moretti. He studied at the University of Padua, graduating in law. He specialized in historiographical research of an economic and legal nature. Politically active, he wrote in several newspapers, including Avanti! and the democratic Paduan newspaper La Libertà. In 1908 he was hired at the State Archives of Venice, where he remained until 1920. At the end of the First World War. between 1919 and 1920 he was sent to Austria, where he dealt with the restitution of a series of documents which, following the end of Austrian rule over the Veneto had remained in the Austrian archives.

In 1920 he was moved to Bari as a history teacher; from 1922 to 1927 he held the same post in Trieste and from 1927 to 1955 he was professor of medieval and modern history at the University of Padua.

After the Second World War he was elected deputy of the PSI in the first legislature: from 1 June 1948 to 1951 he presented six bills; he actively collaborated with the Encyclopedia Treccani, was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei and president of the Venetian Deputation of Homeland History (Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Venezie). He studied and published volumes dedicated above all to the history of Venice and the Veneto, from the Middle Ages to the Risorgimento. Between 1944 and 1946 he published his Storia della Repubblica di Venezia ("History of the Republic of Venice") in two volumes. He also devoted himself to other topics: at the request of Delio Cantimori, in 1954 he published a biography of Martin Luther.[4][5]

Works

Statuti rurali bresciani del secolo XIV, 1923

Notes

  1. ^ Accademia patavina di scienze, lettere ed arti (1986). Atti e memorie Volume 98. Presso la sede della Accademia [patavina di scienze, lettere ed arti]. p. 30.
  2. ^ La filosofia e le lettere Le origini, la modernità, il Novecento (2021). La filosofia e le lettere Le origini, la modernità, il Novecento. Donzelli Editore. ISBN 978-88-5522-248-8.((cite book)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Alexei Miller, Stefan Berger, ed. (2015). Nationalizing Empires. Central European University Press. p. 549. ISBN 978-963-386-017-5.
  4. ^ Preto, Paolo. "CESSI, Roberto". Enciclopedia Italiana. Archived from the original on 8 September 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  5. ^ Roland Herbert Bainton; Delio Cantimori; John A. Tedeschi (2002). The Correspondence of Roland H. Bainton and Delio Cantimori 1932-1966: an Enduring Transatlantic Friendship Between Two Historians of Religious Toleration. L.S. Olschki. p. 151. ISBN 978-88-222-5119-0.
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