Italy had a large number of regional universities and academies until it became one nation between 1859 and 1870. After many attempts to suppress the small universities, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Accademia delle Scienze in Turin, the Società Italiana dei XL, the Istituto Lombardo and the Istituto Veneto were given the task of promoting and coordinating the scientific life of the nation. When Briosch became President of the Società Italiana delle Scienze in 1870, he took up the project of a national academy, by proposing, in 1874, a fusion between the Società Italiana delle Scienze and the Accademia dei Lincei, which had been re-founded that year by Quintino Sella. The members of the Italian Society were to form the class of mathematical, physical and natural sciences, to which the class of moral, historical and philological sciences was to be added. This project, although it had the support of the Minister of Education, failed because of the strong opposition on the part of the Società Italiana. The reform of the Accademia dei Lincei did, however, go ahead: its new statute was approved in 1875 and a new prestigious residence was established in the antique Corsini Palace of Rome in 1883. Brioschi continued the work of renewal as President of the Accademia dei Lincei in 1884 after Sella’s death. The Accademia dei Lincei assumed the role of direction of Italian scientific life, which it maintained for fifty years up to the time of Vito Volterra.
Francesco Brioschi and the Academic Organisation in Italy after the Unification
BORGATO, Maria Teresa
2005
Abstract
Italy had a large number of regional universities and academies until it became one nation between 1859 and 1870. After many attempts to suppress the small universities, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Accademia delle Scienze in Turin, the Società Italiana dei XL, the Istituto Lombardo and the Istituto Veneto were given the task of promoting and coordinating the scientific life of the nation. When Briosch became President of the Società Italiana delle Scienze in 1870, he took up the project of a national academy, by proposing, in 1874, a fusion between the Società Italiana delle Scienze and the Accademia dei Lincei, which had been re-founded that year by Quintino Sella. The members of the Italian Society were to form the class of mathematical, physical and natural sciences, to which the class of moral, historical and philological sciences was to be added. This project, although it had the support of the Minister of Education, failed because of the strong opposition on the part of the Società Italiana. The reform of the Accademia dei Lincei did, however, go ahead: its new statute was approved in 1875 and a new prestigious residence was established in the antique Corsini Palace of Rome in 1883. Brioschi continued the work of renewal as President of the Accademia dei Lincei in 1884 after Sella’s death. The Accademia dei Lincei assumed the role of direction of Italian scientific life, which it maintained for fifty years up to the time of Vito Volterra.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
