Umberto Zanotti Bianco

{{short description|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.{{Cite journal|last=Ungari|first=Andrea|date=2010-05-01|title=Umberto Zanotti Bianco and the Mogadishu events of 1948|journal=Modern Italy|volume=15|issue=2|pages=161–176|doi=10.1080/13532941003676454|s2cid=143828357|issn=1353-2944}}

Career

In 1920, Umberto Zanotti Bianco founded the Società Magna Grecia.{{Cite journal|last=de Haan|first=Nathalie|date=2009-03-01|title=The "Società Magna Grecia" in Fascist Italy|url=http://journals.openedition.org/anabases/367|journal=Anabases. Traditions et Réceptions de l'Antiquité|language=en|issue=9|pages=113–125|doi=10.4000/anabases.367|issn=1774-4296|doi-access=free}} 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,{{cite web|url=http://web.tiscalinet.it/italianostra/info/info.htm|title=Che cos'è ItaliaNostra|website=Tiscalinet.it|date=25 November 1999|language=it|access-date=26 July 2020}}

References

External links

[http://www.animi.it/ Associazione Nazionale per gli Interessi del Mezzogiorno d'Italia]

Category:1889 births

Category:1963 deaths

Category:Italian archaeologists

Category:Italian life senators

Category:20th-century Italian archaeologists