A Biographical Study of Gaetano Pilati (1881-1925)

加塔诺·皮拉蒂出生在博洛尼亚附近，出身于农民家庭，是当地社区中一位杰出的年轻成员，用方言写诗。1906年，他移民到佛罗伦萨，在那里他成为了建筑业的一名成功的企业家，一位发明家(他的发明是使用钢筋混凝土建造市政房屋的第一个项目)，以及当地社会主义协会的领导人。他自愿参加了第一次世界大战，期间他受伤并失去了一只前臂。在医院接受治疗后，他设计了一些假肢，并成功地进行了测试，并被意大利军队正式采用。战后，他回到佛罗伦萨，在1919年的大选中成为国会议员。1925年10月，他在法西斯小队组织的最后一次反社会主义大屠杀中被杀。模拟审判结束时，没有对肇事者提出任何指控，这家人被迫移民到阿根廷。正如对盖塔诺·皮拉蒂生活的总结所表明的那样，出于几个原因，盖塔诺·皮拉蒂值得深入研究。首先，传记，但同样重要的是与皮拉蒂经营的社会背景有关的文化和政治问题。尽管在一些公共档案馆中有大量的档案材料，但迄今为止关于这一主题的研究很少。1978年，在佛罗伦萨社会党支部的支持下，出版了一本纪念性专著。然而，尽管内容丰富，但它的圣徒传记倾向严重破坏了这本书作为一件历史研究的整体价值。在我到佛罗伦萨和罗马进行研究旅行期间，我熟悉了一些机构提供的档案材料。佛罗伦萨的Fondazione Turati收藏了皮拉蒂的大部分私人文件和大量与谋杀审判程序有关的文献。在罗马，我还在罗马国家档案馆保存的法西斯部长档案中发现了一些与这一主题有关的档案。为了重现皮拉蒂在博洛尼亚的早年生活，特别是在20世纪初意大利农民文化的背景下研究他的诗歌，我还计划参观该市的国家档案馆和文法研究所的当地分支机构。额外的研究假将使我能够在2008年夏天完成这本传记。我在过去几年里一直与一家意大利出版商合作--佛罗伦萨的塞萨蒂--表示有兴趣出版我的书的意大利语版本。我还与另一家出版社的负责人讨论了可能的英译本，我与该出版社有定期联系，牛津的勒根达出版社。

Born near the city of Bologna and of peasant origin, Gateano Pilati was a prominent young member of the local community and wrote poetry in dialect. In 1906 he migrated to Florence, where he became a successful entrepeneur in the building industry, an inventor (his are the first projects for the use of reinforced concrete in the construction of council houses), and a leader of the local socialist association. He volunteered in the First World War, during which he was wounded and lost a forearm. Once in care in hospital, he designed a number of prosthetic limbs which were successfully tested and officially adopted by the Italian army. After the war, he returned to Florence where he became a Member of Parliament at the 1919 general elections. He was killed during one of the last anti-socialist pogroms organized by the Fascist squads in October 1925. A mock-trial ended with no charges against the perpetrators and the family was forced to migrate to Argentina.As this summary of his life suggests, Gaetano Pilati deserves an in-depth study for a number of reasons. First of all, biographical, but of equal importance are the cultural and political issues relating to the social context in which Pilati operated. So far very little research has been done on the subject despite the fact that a substantial amount of archival material is available in a number of public archives. A commemorative monograph was published in 1978 under the aegis of Florence's branch of the Socialist Party. However, despite its informative content, its hagiographic slant heavily undermines the overall value of the book as a piece of historical research.During my research trips to Florence and Rome, I familiarized myself with the archival material available in a number of institutions. The Fondazione Turati in Florence holds most of Pilati's private papers and copious literature relating to the proceedings of the murder trial. In Rome I have also found a number of files relevant to the subject at the Fascist ministerial archives held at the National Archives in Rome. In order to reconstruct the early years of Pilati's life in Bologna, and particularly to study his poetry within the context of peasant culture in early 20th century Italy, I have also planned to visit the city's State Archives and the local branch of the Istituto Gramsci.The awarding of an additional Research Leave would allow me to complete the biography by the summer of 2008. An Italian publisher with which I have been collaborating in the past few years - Cesati of Florence - has expressed interest in publishing an Italian edition of my book. I have also discussed a possible English translation with the director of another publishing house with which I am in regular contact, Legenda, of Oxford.