BAGUTTI, GIUSEPPE. - Abbot and educator, b. at Rodio (Canton Ticino) in 1776, d. at Milan in 1837. A collaborator of Federico Confalonieri in the establishment of mutual-teaching schools, from 1816 he devoted his whole life to the education of the deaf-mute, assuming the direction of the Institute for them in Milan. In his travels abroad first, and then for a year at Assarotti's school in Genoa, he had acquired the elements of that preparation which was necessary to discharge such a mission worthily.

To him is due the regulation of the Institute, which derived security of life from the stability of the methods introduced there; his is the first method book on the education of the deaf-mute, entitled Su lo stato fisico, intellettuale e morale, su l'istruzione e i diritti legali dei sordo-muti (Milan 1828); his too is the initiative for the establishment in Milan of the G. Cardano method school.

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BIBL.: Il R. Istituto nazionale dei sordo-muti Principe di Piemonte, Milan 1936, pp. 48-50; A. Lesandrini, G. B. nel primo centenario della sua morte, in Contributi pedagogico-didattici etc., 2nd series, XII, Milan 1937.

Rosario Guido Tentori

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