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Umberto Zanotti Bianco

Umberto Zanotti Bianco

Italian archaeologist, environmentalist and lifetime senator

Umberto Zanotti Bianco (22 January 1889 – 28 August 1963) was an Italian historian social activist. He was once President of the Italian Red Cross.[1]

Career

In 1920, Umberto Zanotti Bianco founded the Società Magna Grecia.[2] In 1955, he co-founded the Italian patrimonial non-profit Italia Nostra along with Pietro Paolo Trompeo, Giorgio Bassani, Desideria Pasolini dall'Onda, Elena Croce, Luigi Magnani, and Hubert Howard,[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Ungari, Andrea (2010-05-01). "Umberto Zanotti Bianco and the Mogadishu events of 1948". Modern Italy. 15 (2): 161–176. doi:10.1080/13532941003676454. ISSN 1353-2944. S2CID 143828357.
  2. [2]
    de Haan, Nathalie (2009-03-01). "The "Società Magna Grecia" in Fascist Italy". Anabases. Traditions et Réceptions de l'Antiquité (9): 113–125. doi:10.4000/anabases.367. ISSN 1774-4296.
  3. [3]
    "Che cos'è ItaliaNostra". Tiscalinet.it (in Italian). 25 November 1999. Retrieved 26 July 2020.


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