BASSI, DOMENICO. - Born at Piancastagnaio (Siena) in 1875 and died at Firenze in 1942. At the age of twenty-two he entered the Congregation of the Barnabite religious. In 1898 he went to Firenze to teach Latin and Greek at the classical secondary school of the college at Querce, of which he became rector in 1919. He retained this office until 1928. In 1931 he was appointed general visitor for the Roman province of his Congregation. In 1934 he taught Latin and Greek at the secondary school of the institute of S. Paolo of the Barnabite seminary in Firenze.
B., who was a serious and esteemed scholar, took an active interest in pedagogical problems, to the solution of which he contributed a rare clarity of ideas deriving above all from the study and close examination of Christian and classical texts, of which he prepared several editions. Fr. B. also produced various works of a religious character, among which should be mentioned: La saggezza cristiana con s. Agostino (Firenze 1910); Il Vangelo per i giovani (ibid. 1911); Il pensiero religioso di s. Agostino (Roma 1928); Il vangelo e la vita di Gesù (Firenze 1933); S. Agostino, Il Vangelo e la vita di Maria (ibid. 1934); La barricata. Difesa sintetica della Chiesa (Roma 1936); Le ultime parole al martire. Attorno alla culla di Gesù (Firenze 1937). Of his pedagogical production, the following should be recalled: La saggezza nell'educazione (Venezia 1928); In famiglia, saggi di educazione (Roma 1929); Quintiliano maestro (Firenze 1930); Il pensiero morale e pedagogico di Plutarco (ibid. 1937).