Giovanni Bovio (6 February 1837 – 15 April 1903) was an Italian

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and a

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of the

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. Bovio was born in

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. He was a member of the

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of the Parliament of the

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. He wrote a philosophical work in 1864 called ''Il Verbo Novello''. He was involved in setting up the radical movement " Fascio della democrazia" in 1883. In 1895 he founded the Italian Republican Party. A plaque on the house on Piazza Giovanni Bovio number 38 recalls his death in that house:

''In this house died, poor and uncontaminated Giovanni Bovio, who by meditating with free spirit the infinite and consecrating the reasons of the peoples in adamantine pages, revived with great splendor Italian thought and was a prescient seer of the new age. U Buccini 1905''

Bovio was a Freemason initiated to the 33rd degree of the

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, after having joined the lodge ''

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'' of

in 1863.Ferdinando Cordova (2011), ''Massoneria e Politica in Italia, 1892-1908'', Carte Scoperte, Milan, p. 42. His grandfather

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was also a Freemason.

Ancestors and descendants of Giovanni Bovio

* Francesco Maria Bovio (1750s - 1830) - Giovanni Bovio's grandfather - professor of law, Latin, Ancient Greek and literature at ''Regie Scuole'' of Matera and of the University of Altamura. He was also judge and a Freemason, member of the masonic lodge ''Oriente di Altamura''. Moreover, he fought for the

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, by joining in the so-called Altamuran Revolution (1799) * Nicola Bovio - Giovanni Bovio's father * Scipione Bovio - Giovanni Bovio's uncle * Corso Bovio - Giovanni Bovio's son *

Libero Bovio Libero Bovio (9 June 1883 – 26 May 1942) was a Neapolitan lyricist and dialect poet. Bovio was one of those responsible for the rejuvenation of Neapolitan dialect in plays, poetry and song at the beginning of the twentieth century. He took ...

- Giovanni Bovio's son - poet e musician * Giovanni Bovio (... - 1970s) - Giovanni Bovio's grandson - lawyer * Libero Corso Bovio (1948-2007) - Giovanni Bovio's great-grandson - lawyer, journalist and professor

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Ancestors and descendants of Giovanni Bovio

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