Villa Agnedo Aerial view.
Villa Agnedo is a ''frazione'' of the ''comune'' (municipality) of Castel Ivano, Trentino, in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about east of Trento
Trento ( or ; Ladin language, Ladin and ; ; ...
, 25 July 1906 –
Padua
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, 21 March 1983) was a Latin
scholar
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and
philologist
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,
professor
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of
medieval Latin literature
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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
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(UCSC).FRANCESCHINI, Ezio /ref>
Biography
He graduated in literature from the University of Padua in 1928 and became an assistant to
Concetto Marchesi
Concetto Marchesi (1 February 1878 – 12 February 1957) was an Italian Latinist and politician. He represented the Italian Communist Party in the Constituent Assembly of Italy from 1946 to 1948 and in the Chamber of Deputies from 1948 to 1957.
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. In 1938 he won the first competition in Italy for a chair of Medieval Latin Literature, and from the following year he was the holder of that seat (which he had already held by appointment since 1936) at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
In 1943, after the
armistice
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, together with other professors, Franceschini supported the Resistance. Among these, in particular, there was his teacher Concetto Marchesi, a leading figure of the
Italian Communist Party
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, who Franceschini helped to emigrate to Switzerland, in February 1944. Together they founded the FRAMA group in Padua (from the initials of Franceschini and Marchesi), which devoted itself above all to the benefit of international military prisoners of war.
He was Dean, from 1953 to 1965, of the Faculty of Letters of the Catholic University. From 1932 he had joined the institute of the Missionaries of the Kingship of Christ, founded by Father
Agostino Gemelli
Agostino Gemelli OFM (18 January 1878 – 15 July 1959) was an Italian Capuchin friar, physician and psychologist, who was also the founder and first rector of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart) ...
, rector of the university, in 1928; he himself refounded the Institute as President, in 1942.
When Francesco Vito died, Ezio Franceschini was elected the third rector of UCSC (1965–1968) and faced the rise of student protest of 1968.
Franceschini was a corresponding member since 1947 and national member since 1959 of
Accademia dei Lincei
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