24 Facts About Alessandro Casati

Alessandro Casati was an Italian academic, commentator and politician.

Alessandro Casati served as a senator between 1923 and 1924 and again between 1948 and 1953.

Alessandro Casati's upbringing was privileged and heavily influenced by the nineteenth century liberalism that in Italy had grown out of eighteenth century enlightenment ideals.

Alessandro Casati was a student at the "Alessandro Manzoni College" in Merate.

An influence from his adolescence that recurs most frequently in Alessandro Casati's writings is the wily pragmatic economist-politician Stefano Jacini.

Alessandro Casati was, as a young man, an enthusiastic child of Modernism, both in terms of his religion and more broadly.

Alessandro Casati was not among those who professed themselves surprised by the outbreak of war at the end of July 1914, and he regarded Italy's military intervention in April 1915 as an inevitable if deplorable development.

Alessandro Casati fought at the Battle of Asiago, led the successful attack by the 127th infantry regiment of the Florence Brigade at Monte Kobilek and was badly wounded at Bainsizza, following which he needed an operation.

Alessandro Casati fought with his "Alpini" forces against the Austrians in the so-called "White War" in and around the Tonale Pass in the mountains north of Bergamo and Brescia.

Capello was considered unusual in senior military circles because of the way he liked to surround himself with "intellectuals", and the "catholic liberal" Alessandro Casati was prominent among these.

Alessandro Casati joined the government as part of the cabinet re-shuffle of 1 July 1924, taking over from Giovanni Gentile at the Education Ministry.

Alessandro Casati assured the parliament that within the next 48 hours the situation would be clarified.

Correspondence with his friend Benedetto Croce indicates that Alessandro Casati had difficulty adjusting to the reduction in the size of his social circle that followed his withdrawal from public life.

Alessandro Casati devoted himself to preparing a three volume historical work on contemporary Italian history.

Alessandro Casati was assigned to the Special Battalion of the First Grenadiers.

Alessandro Casati became a posthumous recipient of the Medaglia di bronzo al valor militare.

Alessandro Casati served under Bonomi between 18 June 1944 and 21 June 1945 as Minister of War.

Alessandro Casati used this as an opportunity to help build up the strength of the Corpo Italiano di Liberazione and implement various military reforms of a technical nature.

Alessandro Casati was nominated to membership of the republican senate on 1 April 1948, formally on the basis that he had been a member of the old senate.

Alessandro Casati was elected president of the Liberal Party group of senators on 8 May 1948, retaining this position till 24 June 1953.

Alessandro Casati was elected to the ruling council of the Italian Institute for the Study of History and to the presidency of the National Council of Public Instruction.

Alessandro Casati became a member of the Dante Alighieri Society between 1953 and 1955, and of the Italian Press Association.

Alessandro Casati was president of the commission charged with the publication of Cavour's correspondence and related diplomatic documents.

Alessandro Casati's physical remains are buried, alongside those of his wife and of the son who predeceased them both, in the family masoleum at the Muggio municipal cemetery, near to the family home of his later years at Arcore.