Pietro Ubaldi (August 18, 1886 in

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, Italy – February 29, 1972 in São Vicente, Brazil) was an Italian philosopher,

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and teacher. He was nominated for the

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five times.

Biography

Ubaldi was graduated in Law and Music, at

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. A student of various philosophical and religious traditions, he distinguished himself as a

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thinker. He had two children, Agnese and Franco, who died during the second world war. A descendant of an affluent family of

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, Ubaldi renounced richness to be faithful to the

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. First he went to

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to teach English in a secondary school, then, always as a teacher, he went to

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, where he lived for twenty years. Ubaldi authored 24 books: 12 in Italy and 12 in Brazil. ''The Great Synthesis'' is considered one of his principal works.

List of books

Since most of Pietro Ubaldi's books are not available in English, titles are only a translation of their Italian versions and might vary once formally published. 1 – ''Great Messages''
2 – ''The Great Synthesis (Synthesis and Solution to the Problems of Science and Spirit)''
3 – ''Mental Currents (The Nours)''
4 – ''Mystical Ascent''
5 – ''Story of a Man''
6 – ''Fragments of Thought and Passion''
7 – ''The New Civilization of the Third Millennium''
8 – ''Problems of the Future''
9 – ''Human Ascents''
10 – ''God and the Universe''
11 – ''Prophecies (The Future of the World)''
12 – ''Commentaries''
13 – ''Current Problems''
14 – ''The System (Genesis and Structure of the Universe)''
15 – ''The Great Battle''
16 – ''Evolution and the Gospel''
17 – ''The Law of God''
18 – ''The Functional Technique of the Law of God''
19 – ''Fall and Salvation''
20 – ''Principles of a New Ethics''
21 – ''The Descent of Ideals''
22 – ''A Destiny Following Christ''
23 – ''How to Orient One's Life''
24 – ''Christ''

References

External links

* http://www.pietroubaldi.com/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Ubaldi Christian philosophers 1972 deaths 20th-century Italian philosophers 1886 births