Onorato Caetani

Onorato Caetani di Sermoneta ( Rome , 18 January 1842 - Rome , 2 September 1917 ) was an Italian politician.

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Biography [ edit :: wikitesto change ]

Honored, XIV Duke of Sermoneta and IV prince of Teano , he was the son of Michelangelo and Calixta Rzewuska, whose grandfather had been Wenceslas Seweryn Rzewuski , well-known Polish orientalist and nephew of Jan Potocki . He graduated in jurisprudence from the University of Rome in 1863 and lived for a long time in England , where in 1867 he married Ada Bootle-Wilbraham . He was the father of the Islamist Leone Caetani (1869-1935) and the composer Roffredo Caetani (1871-1961). He was passionate about music: he was a friend of Wagner and Liszt , and was president of the Roman Philharmonic Academy .

Political career [ edit :: wikitesto change ]

A man of the historical Right , he took an active part in political life from moderate positions, gaining the esteem of both Catholics and anticlericals. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the college of Velletri in March 1872 and remained there uninterruptedly until 1911 , when he was appointed senator of the Kingdom . In the meantime he was mayor of Rome from December 1890 to November 1892 , and in 1896 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Italy in the Government of Rudini II [1]. As mayor of Rome he found himself administering the city during the serious financial crisis that followed the intense great building development of the eighties . Its management was oriented to exclusively administrative criteria, aimed at reorganizing the municipal budget, helped in this by the special law on Rome.

Presidency of the Italian Geographic Society [ edit :: wikitesto change ]

Honored Caetani was also president of the Italian Geographical Society succeeding in 1879 to Cesare Correnti , that of the society had been the founder, resigned following the polemics on the support that the society had given for explorations in the East Africa , whose ends were then proved to be dictated by colonial interests . Caetani will hold the office of president until 1887 , guaranteeing its scientific character; promoted the teaching of geography in schools, and in 1881 organized the III International Congress of Geography in Venice.

In 1893 he gave the Florence Cathedral the statue of Bonifacio VIII attributed to Arnolfo di Cambio and coming from the ancient façade of Santa Maria del Fiore.

Bibliograph

Piero Craveri , CAETANI, Onorato , in the biographical dictionary of Italians , vol. 16, Rome, Institute of the Italian Encyclopaedia, 1973. URL consulted on 10 June 2015.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onorato_Caetani_(1842-1917) I.S. 1/8/2018

http://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-55239596/ I.S. 1/8/2018