Alessandro Augusto Monti della Corte
Alessandro Augusto Monti della Corte (21 January 1902 – 21 December 1974) was an Italian writer, traveller, winemaker and activist, scholar of history, politics, heraldry and genealogy.
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Biography
Alessandro Augusto was born in Brescia, the son of Baron Girolamo Monti della Corte and his wife Beatrice (née Pierantoni-Mancini).[1] Monti della Corte, an ancient and noble Brescian family, is known since the 12th century. Its members always took an active part in the events of the city, and from 1426 they belonged uninterruptedly to the General Council of the nobility; some then distinguished themselves in the service of Venice, others in an ecclesiastical career.
Alessandro Augusto graduated in political science and in law at the University of Rome. He was with D'Annunzio's legionari in Fiume and Dalmatia (1920). He soon joined the fascist movement. A university lecturer, he was in charge of courses at the universities of Pavia and Pécs (Hungary). In the 1920s he was an active campaigner against blasphemy.[1]
From 1937 to 1941, he was head of the Asmara Government's research unit and a combatant in the A.O.I. He participated as a second lieutenant in the defence of Gondar in the 10th Cavalry Battalion, to which he was ultimately attached.[1] He was later taken prisoner in Kenya. For his conduct, he was awarded the Bronze Medal of Military Valor.
In 1938 Monti della Corte published a general description of the complex of castles, churches and lesser structures at Gondar. Under the auspices of Governor Frusci, he also led a scientific mission to study the Rock-Hewn Churches at Lalibela (Lasta) in 1939.
From 1950 to 1954 he was head of the Research and Development Office of the Mostra d'Oltremare in Naples and, in 1953, Secretary General of the II International Congress of Heraldry (Rome and Naples).[1]
A member of the provincial executive council of Common Man's Front since February 1947, he stood as a candidate in the Breno senatorial constituency for the PDIUM in the political elections of 28 April 1963. He then stood, following the unity pact made by the same party, in the elections of 7 May 1972 on the MSI-DN list.[1]
Editor of the periodical La Bandiera, he also contributed to L'Impero, The Armorial of Edinburgh, Il Conciliatore, Il Popolo di Brescia, among others.
In 1956, he came to the aid of the Hungarians through the Order of Malta, of which he was a knight of obedience. He was also a chancellor and knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, a knight of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George.
Private life
His first marriage on 23 April 1925 was to Jacqueline Keutchè Oglou-Guetchejan (1907–1932), from whom he had a daughter, Maria Beatrice (born 1926), who, after opening the Galleria dell'Ariete in 1955, married the writer Gregor von Rezzori.[2] From his second marriage on 21 August 1934 to Giuseppina Corsi, he had Maria Enrica (1947–1984).
See also
Works
- L’opera dei Catechismi di S. Marta associandosi alla celebrazione nazionale del sesto centenario dalla morte di Dante Alighieri offre tenue contributo ai suoi giovani e collaboratori (1921)
- Pagine reazionarie (1926)[3]
- Sviluppi e insegnamenti della crisi francese (1926)
- Estrema destra (1927)
- Giovanni dalle Bande Nere (1928)
- L'avventura di Luchino Tarigo: romanzo (1928)
- I grandi atleti del Trono e dell'Altare (1929)
- Rosso-bianco-verde e azzurro-bianco-rosso (Ungheria e Jugoslavia) (1931)
- I cavalieri della Santa Fede: romanzo della reazione meridionale (1933; illustrated by Leonardo Borgese)
- Dottrina e posizione del neolegittimismo (1933)
- Viva San Marco! (1933)
- Quel quarantotto! (1934)
- Illuminazioni prefasciste nell'opera di E. Renan (1934)
- L'iniqua mercede (1935)
- I castelli di Gondar (1938)
- Lalibelà: Le chiese ipogee e monolitiche e gli altri monumenti medievali del Lasta (1940)
- I provvedimenti nobiliari "Di Grazia" Emanati Da S. M. Il Re Umberto II (1955)
- Le famiglie del Patriziato Bresciano (1960)
- L'amazzone dei gigli: Maria Carolina di Napoli, duchessa di Berry (1798-1870) (1961)[4]
- Fonti araldiche e blasoniche bresciane (1962)
- Cariche sul Maghecc. Presentazione del generale d'armata Guglielmo Nasi (1964)
- Armerista bresciano, camuno, benacense e di Valsabbia, cui segue lo stemmario dei vescovi di Brescia dal 1133 ai nostri giorni (1974)
Selected publications
- "Un gioiello archeologico tra le montagne del Lasta: il sanctuario di Imrahanè-Christos," Bolletino della Reale società geografica italiana, Vol. V, No. 6 (1940)
- "Il 'Diario dell'Assedio di Malta'," Rivista del Collegio Araldico, Vol. LXIII (1965)
- "L'impero coloniale dell'Ordine di Malta nel mare dei Caraibi (1653-1665)," Rivista del Collegio Araldico, Vol. LXVII (1969)
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Monti della Corte, Alessandro Augusto," Enciclopedia Bresciana.
- ↑ Palazzo Monti della Corte. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ↑ Lorecchio, Bernardo (17 giugno 1926). "Pagine reazionarie," La Tribuna, No. 143, p. 3.
- ↑ Pasqualin, Riccardo (25/03/2020). "L'amazzone dei gigli di Alessandro Augusto Monti della Corte," Sololibri.net. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
References
- Pasqualin, Riccardo (2018). "“I grandi atleti del Trono e dell’Altare” e il pensiero legittimista in Alessandro Augusto Monti della Corte," Lettere nel Tempo, No. 1, pp. 2–12.
- Tosca, Pino (2005). l cammino della tradizione e altri scritti. Rimini: Il Cerchio.
External links
- Works by Alessandro Augusto Monti della Corte at Open Library
- Works by Alessandro Augusto Monti della Corte at Hathi Trust
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- 1902 births
- 1974 deaths
- 20th-century Italian biographers
- 20th-century Italian male writers
- 20th-century Italian nobility
- 20th-century Italian novelists
- 20th-century pseudonymous writers
- Italian fascists
- Italian heraldists
- Italian historical novelists
- Italian male biographers
- Italian male novelists
- Italian military personnel of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
- Italian monarchists
- Italian prisoners of war
- Italian Roman Catholic writers
- Italian winemakers
- Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
- Knights of Malta
- Recipients of the Bronze Medal of Military Valor
- Royal Italian Army personnel of World War II
- Sapienza University of Rome alumni
- Writers from Brescia