Cesare Angelini (2 August 1886 – 27 September 1976) was an Italian presbyter, writer and literary critic.

Biography

Albuzzano, education

Angelini was born in

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. He was the sixth son of Giovanni Battista and Maria Maddalena Bozzini (or Bosini), peasants from whom he learned the rural agricultural traditions. Under the care of the archpriest of Albuzzano, Cesare Prelini (1843-1915), he prepared for his high school studies which he carried out at the Episcopal Seminary of Pavia. He was ordained a priest on 24 June 1910.

Cesena, first writings

From 1910 to 1915, he was called to teach literature at the Seminary of

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by the local bishop, Monsignor Giovanni Cazzani from Pavia. In the Romagna town he met and met almost daily the literary critic Renato Serra librarian of the

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who brought Angelini closer and closer to literature, introduced him to the cultural environment of the ''Voce'' and marks his itinerary on the path of fragmentism intrinsic to the Florentine magazine. Angelini's debut in a literary sheet took place in ''Romagna'', year X, 1913, no. 1, January 15, p. 4-20, with the essay ''Un poeta della critica'' dedicated to Serra. Other interventions from that period (critical essays, lyric prose and poems) appeared in magazines at the limit of local circulation such as ''La Romagna'', ''Il Corriere Cesena'', ''Il Cittadino''. Serra died on 20 July 1915, at the age of thirty, in the First World War on Podgora. Angelini will keep his memory throughout his existence, publishing numerous essays dedicated to him in magazines, in commemorative editions.

''La Voce'', First World War

In 1915 Angelini was in

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and wrote the first two essays for the white ''Voce'' of De Robertis on Pascoli, ''Pascoli moderno'' (no. 9, April) and ''Pascoli e Croce'' (no. 13, July). Also in the Florentine magazine, in the commemorative number dedicated to Renato Serra (no. 16, October), appeared his contribution ''Il primo critico puro'', in which there is already the intention of art and literature that he will exercise throughout his life, remaining faithful to Serra's teaching and to his ethical and cultural lesson. From March 1916 he participated in the

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as a soldier in the health service and, from August 1917, chaplain of the Alpini in the Sette Comuni battalion, then in the Bassano battalion, and, from January 1918, in the Intra battalion. On a mission to

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, in the summer of 1919, he approached Alì Mohamed Murtezza Karageorgevič, Mutfì of

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: the exchange and common reading of religious books - the ''Gospel'', the ''Koran'' - resulted in an episode that seemed to anticipate

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's ecumenism.

Torre d'Isola, prose writer, militant critic

In October 1919, discharged, he moved to

Torre d'Isola Torre d'Isola is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 30 km south of Milan and about 6 km northwest of Pavia. As of 30 June 2008, it had a population of 2,276 and an area of 16 ...

, coadjutor of his brother Giuseppe who was a pastor there, and taught literature in the Episcopal Seminary of Pavia. He has been collaborating since 1920 with critical essays and lyrical prose in the milanese magazines ''Il Convegno'' by Enzo Ferrieri, ''Il Carroccio'', ''La Festa'', later in ''Pègaso'' and ''Pan'' by

Ugo Ojetti Ugo Ojetti (15 July 1871 – 1 January 1946) was an Italian journalist-commentator and author. He wrote prolifically on a wide range of topics. His output also includes short stories and at least seven novels. Nevertheless, during his later ...

. In 1923 he published his first work ''Il lettore provveduto'', a collection of literary studies on 19th and 20th century writers (first published in ''Convegno'' magazine) with a preface ''Discorso con l'anima mia''. Three years later, in 1926, ''La Civiltà Cattolica'' (1926, no. 3, pp. 532–533) reported an anonymous criticism accusing Angelini of not giving «exact account of the moral and religious value of the authors»; with particular reference to the expressions of esteem present in the chapter concerning

Giovanni Verga Giovanni Carmelo Verga di Fontanabianca (; 2 September 1840 – 27 January 1922) was an Italian Literary realism, realist (''Verismo (literature), verista'') writer. His novels ''I Malavoglia'' (1881) and ''Mastro-don Gesualdo'' (1889) are widel ...

, an author who did not fall within the canons of Catholic readings.

Friends

Correspondence continued and expanded, with

Antonio Baldini Antonio Baldini (10 October 1889 – 6 November 1962) was an Italian journalist, literary critic and writer. Institutions renamed in celebration and commemoration of Baldini include, slightly unusually, a large public library in Rome, the "Bibl ...

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, Giuseppe De Robertis,

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, Tommaso Gallarati Scotti, Carlo Linati,

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. He also began an acquaintance with the vernacular poet Angelo Ferrari (1874-1971), for whose second collection of poems ''Un bris ad ciel'' (1924) he collaborated in the choice of texts. In January 1924, following his intervention in the magazine ''La Festa'' concerning

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, which he had read since his years in the Seminary, he received a letter of thanks from her from which a relationship of friendship and correspondence began. Vittorio Beonio-Brocchieri frequented. He had friendships and correspondence with

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, whom he met in Rome in 1919 in the offices of the '' Voce''. With

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he established an assiduous and admiring relationship, to the point that Papini confided and anticipated his conversion to Christianity to Angelini. And it was Papini himself who wrote an open letter in a magazine with esteem, which would bring Angelini credit in the literary world.

Pilgrim in the Holy Land, pastor

In December 1932, he made his first pilgrimage to the

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by sea (the travel diary was subsequently presented in installments - January, February 1933 - in the pages of ''

Corriere della Sera (; ) is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan with an average circulation of 246,278 copies in May 2023. First published on 5 March 1876, is one of Italy's oldest newspapers and is Italy's most read newspaper. Its masthead has remain ...

''); returning there in March 1937. In 1938, after his brother died, appointed pastor of

The Borromeo

Since 1939 he was rector of Almo Collegio Borromeo, it is the oldest university college in Italy founded in

by San Carlo in 1561. He remained there for 22 years. From 1941 to 1945, the Borromeo was transformed into a military hospital: Angelini maintained contact with the students involved in the conflict, and in any case supervised the life of the college. In 1946, in the difficult period of reconstruction, in order to (re) bring students and ex-students closer to the college, he established the Alumni Association. From 1946 to 1955 he promoted the publication of the ''Saggi di umanismo cristiano'', Quaderni dell'Almo Collegio Borromeo, signing himself as editorial secretary: a quarterly in which, together with the contributions of already known authors, wrote also young students and ex-students of the Borromeo itself, of the

Collegio Ghislieri The Ghislieri College (Italian: ''Collegio Ghislieri''), founded in 1567 by Pope Pius V, is the second-oldest college in Pavia and co-founder of the IUSS in Pavia as well. History Collegio Ghislieri is a 450-year-old Italian institution c ...

and of the Normale di Pisa - who would reach prominent places in the world of culture. Angelini of his own published essays, prose and poems. He hostes personalities of different orientations for conferences, so that they could speak to students and to the citizens of Pavia, who were also always invited. He wrote some prose dedicated to the college: ''Questo Borromeo'', ''Piazza Borromeo'' and ''Luna sul Borromeo''.

Assisi, domestic prelate

In August 1946 he took part in the religious courses of the Pro Civitate Christiana in

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, which he would follow year after year until 1960. Assisi was a favorite destination of the priest from Pavia, where he met fellow friends-coursesists

Piero Bargellini Piero Francesco Bargellini (5 August 1897 – 28 February 1980) was an Italian politician, writer and journalist, who served as mayor of Florence (1968–1969), Senator (1968–1972) and Deputy (1972–1976). Biography In 1929 Bargellini founde ...

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, Nazareno Fabbretti,

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, Michele Saponaro, and others. On 21 July 1950 he was appointed domestic prelate.

Luigi Porta street, Sant'Invenzio street

After the rectorate in Borromeo, from 1961 to 1976 he led a private life in Pavia, first in Luigi Porta street then in Sant'Invenzio street to which he reserved autobiographical pages. He reproposed his texts in new editions: in a continuous and repeated work he corrected a previous mannerism and an excessive literariness. It can be said that Angelini completely revised his work, he "rewrote" himself. He published a school commentary on the '' I Promessi Sposi'' for Principato (1962). Edit the ''Bible'' for

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in handouts (1962). He translates sacred scriptures: the ''Song of Songs'' for Scheiwiller (1963), the ''Acts of the Apostles'' for

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(1967) and the Apocalypse for

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(1969). He was an elzevirist of ''

'', essayist in ''Nuova Antologia''. On 14 October 1964 he received an honorary degree in Letters from the University of Pavia. On 11 May 1968, at the castle of

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, he was awarded the «Emilio Cecchi Prize» reserved for critics for the volume ''Capitoli sul Manzoni, vecchi e nuovi'', an anthology of his writings about Manzoni published in 1966 by

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. On 28 May 1972 he was awarded the first edition of the "Targa d'Oro Jean Giono" from the Rotary Club of

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. In April 1975, at the age of 88, with the rector of the Almo Collegio Borromeo, Angelo Comini, and some students, he went to Rome for the twenty-fifth

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; on 2 April he was publicly welcomed by

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in the courtyard of S. Damaso. On the evening of 27 September 1976, at the age of 90, he died in his home in Sant'Invenzio street. Although on several occasions he had openly expressed the desire for his tomb located in the

, he is buried in the cemetery of

, next to his parents and brothers, as he requests in his will dated 10 September 1975.

Works

His production, which includes numerous books, can be divided into some sections.

Prose

He was the author of art prose, also of an autobiographical nature, published in magazines and then collected and reworked in volumes, among which we highlight: ''Commenti alle cose'' (1925), ''I doni del Signore'' (1933), ''Santi e poeti (e paesi)'' (1939), ''Carta, penna e calamaio'' (1944), ''Acquerelli'' (1948), ''I frammenti del Sabato'' (1952), ''Autunno (e altre stagioni)'' (1959), ''Viaggio in Pavia'' (1964), ''Questa mia Bassa (e altre terre)'' (1970), ''Il piacere della memoria'' (1977).

Poetry

He debuted with verses in the Pascoli style published in newspapers from

and

(1912-1913), collected in ''Belvento di Romagna. Pagine disperse (1912-1923)'', edited by Renzo Cremante, (2010). A new poetic experience can be found from 1947 to 1948: he published twelve sonnets dedicated to the months - in installments - in the quarterly ''Saggi di umanismo cristiano'', then revised and reunited in ''Autunno (e altre stagioni)'' (1959), finally resubmitted with variations in ''Il piacere della memoria'' (1977).

Critic

In critic he was outlined in the absolute fidelity to Manzoni - who became an example and almost an interlocutor - expressed in numerous volumes, since 1924 with ''Il dono del Manzoni'', followed by ''Invito al Manzoni'' (1936), ''Manzoni'' (1942), ''L'osteria della luna piena'' (1962). The anthology was ''Capitoli sul Manzoni vecchi e nuovi'' (1966) and publish commentary on '' I Promessi Sposi'' in 1958. Finally ''Variazioni manzoniane'' (1974) and the posthumous ''Con Renzo e con Lucia (e con gli altri). Essays on Manzoni'' (1986). He paused on

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with ''Il commento dell'esule (Noterelle dantesche)'' (1967). About

Leopardi Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (29 June 1798 – 14 June 1837) was an Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist. Considered the greatest Italian poet of the 19th century and one of the greatest a ...

, Foscolo, Monti, he wrote studies and editions, later brought together in ''Nostro Ottocento'' (1970) and ''Altro Ottocento (e un po' di Novecento)'' (1973); published essays about Pascoli, admired since his youth in

, collected in ''Su Pascoli (e dintorni di Romagna). Pagine disperse'', edited by Renzo Cremante, (2008). In the context of the twentieth century he dealt in particular with Renato Serra, and reported some of the essays dedicated to him in ''Notizia di Renato Serra'' (1968); moreover, he reserved studies for authors who feel similar to his choices as a reader, many of which were finally merged into ''Cronachette di letteratura contemporanea'' (1971).

Religious literature

He was accompanied by a long dedication to religious literature; among the volumes we note: ''Conversazioni sul Vangelo'' (1930), ''La vita di Gesù narrata ai ragazzi'' (1934), ''Il leggendario dei Santi'' (1935), ''Invito in Terrasanta'' (1937), ''Il Regno dei Cieli'' (1950), ''Parabole e fatti nel Vangelo'' (1955), ''Quattro Santi (e un libro)'' (1957), ''La madre del Signore'' (1958), ''Ritratto di Vescovo (Mons. Giovanni Cazzani)'' (1969), ''Caterina da Siena voce d'Italia'' (1974), ''La vita di Gesù narrata da sua madre'' (1976), ''Ritratti di sacerdoti'' (1977), ''Lettera al Papa (con altri scritti)'' (1977). He edited the ''Viaggi in Terrasanta'' by Leonardo Frescobaldi and Simone Sigoli (1944), the ''Gospels'' in the translation of

Niccolò Tommaseo Niccolò Tommaseo (; 9 October 1802 – 1 May 1874) was a Dalmatian Italian linguist, journalist and essayist, the editor of a (''A Dictionary of the Italian Language'') in eight volumes (1861–74), of a dictionary of synonyms (1830) and other ...

(1949), the ''Bible'' (1962); translated the ''Song of Songs'' (1963), the ''Acts of the Apostles'' (1967) and the ''Apocalypse'' (1969).

School editions

In school editions he published literary anthologies edited by him, for seminars, middle schools, gymnasium classes, scientific high school: ''La vite e i tralci'' (1931), ''La porta d'oro'' (1946), ''L'allegra vendemmia'' (1949). For middle schools he was the author of religious texts: ''La grande promessa'' (1952), ''Il Messia è con noi'' (1952), ''Vivere il credo'' (1952). Furthermore, from 1930 to 1957, he was called to collaborate with the most popular primary school textbooks, taking care of the religious part and the choice of readings. A commentary on '' I Promessi Sposi'' for school was published in 1962.

Posthumous anthologies

An exhaustive anthology of works is offered in the three volumes: *''Cesare Angelini nel 'tempo' delle amicizie'', edited by Angelo Stella, Pavia, Centro di ricerca sulla tradizione manoscritta di autori moderni e contemporanei (1996). * ''Il mondo di Cesare Angelini'', edited by Gianni Mussini and Vanni Scheiwiller, illustrations by Luisa Bianchi, introductory essay by Angelo Stella, Milano, Libri Scheiwiller-Banca Popolare di Milano (1997). *Mario Cantella, ''La poetica degli occhi. Vita e scritti di Cesare Angelini'', illustrations by Luisa Bianchi, Pavia, Il Regisole (2000).

Letters

An exhaustive publication of the correspondence is proposed in the volumes: * Cesare Angelini,

, ''Carteggio: 1919-1976'', edited by Margherita Marchione and Gianni Mussini, preface by

, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1983. *Cesare Angelini, ''I doni della vita. Lettere 1913-1976'', edited by Angelo Stella and Anna Modena, Milano, Rusconi, 1985. *Roberta Ramella, ''Lettere di Cesare Angelini a Luigi Fallacara'', in '' Autografo'', year XIII no. 27, Milano, Giorgio Mondadori, ottobre 1992, pp. 81–95. *Cesare Repossi, ''Cesare Angelini e

. Incontri nella "rossa Pavia"'', presentation by Angelo Stella, Pavia, UNITRE, 1996. *''Cesare Angelini nel 'tempo' delle amicizie'', edited by Angelo Stella, Pavia, Centro di ricerca sulla tradizione manoscritta di autori moderni e contemporanei, 1996. *Gianandrea Zanone, ''Corrispondenza Fracchia-Angelini'', in ''Archivi del nuovo'', no. 2, edited by Renzo Cremante, Cesenatico, Casa Moretti, 1998, pp. 117–131. *Arturo Colombo, ''Curiosando fra gli epistolari con Missiroli e Spadolini. Quelle carte parlanti di Angelini "giornalista"'', in ''Nuova Antologia'', no. 2240, Firenze, 2006, pp. 70–77. *Manuela Ricci, ''Il carteggio fra

e Cesare Angelini (con una parentesi morettiana)'', in ''Filologia e critica nella modernità letteraria. Studi in onore di Renzo Cremante'', edited by Andrea Battistini, Arnaldo Bruni, Irene Romera Pintor, Bologna, CLUEB, 2012, pp. 369–408. *Cesare Angelini, Carlo Linati, ''Carteggio: 1919-1976'', edited by Fabio Maggi and Nicoletta Trotta, preface by Renzo Cremante, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2013. *Fabio Maggi, ''

Giuseppe Ungaretti Giuseppe Ungaretti (; 8 February 1888 – 2 June 1970) was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. A leading representative of the experi ...

in Borromeo'' (correspondence with Ungaretti), in ''Quaderni borromaici'', no. 4, Novara, Interlinea, 2017, pp. 109–121. *Cesare Angelini, Paolo De Benedetti, ''Quasi evangelista, quasi talmudista. Lettere (1949-1975)'', edited by Nicoletta Leone and Fabio Maggi, Brescia, Morcelliana, 2020. *Cesare Angelini,

Gianfranco Contini Gianfranco Contini (4 January 1912 – 1 February 1990) was an Italian academic and philologist. He studied at the Collegio Mellerio Rosmini in Domodossola, then at the University of Pavia, where he graduated in 1933. Later, he studied also ...

, ''Critica e carità. Lettere (1934-1965)'', edited by Gianni Mussini, with the collaboration of Fabio Maggi, presentation by Carlo Carena, Novara, Interlinea, 2021. *Cesare Angelini,

, ''"Queste nostre benedette Lettere". Carteggio (1928-1974)'', edited by Giacomo Bruni, presentation by Giuseppe Antonelli, Novara, Interlinea ("Biblioteca di 'Autografo'"), 2025.

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