BASSI, DOMENICO. - Born at Piancastagnaio (Siena) in 1875 and died at Florence in 1942. At the age of 22 he entered the Congregation of the Barnabite religious. In 1898 he went to Florence to teach Latin and Greek at the liceo-ginnasio of the college at Querce, of which, in 1919, he became rector. He held 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 liceo of the institute of St. Paul of the Barnabite seminary of Florence.
B., who was a serious and esteemed scholar, took an active interest in pedagogical problems, to the solution of which he brought the contribution of a rare clarity of ideas that came to him above all from the study and deep examination of the Christian and classical texts of which he edited several editions. Fr. B. also has to his credit various works of a religious character, among which are to be remembered: La saggezza cristiana con s. Agostino (Florence 1910); Il Vangelo per i giovani (ibid. 1911); Il pensiero religioso di s. Agostino (Rome 1928); Il vangelo e la vita di Gesù (Florence 1933); S. Agostino, Il Vangelo e la vita di Maria (ibid. 1934); La barricata. Difesa sintetica della Chiesa (Rome 1936); Le ultime parole al martire. Attorno alla culla di Gesù (Florence 1937). Of his pedagogical output are to be remembered: La saggezza nell'educazione (Venice 1928); In famiglia, saggi di educazione (Rome 1929); Quintiliano maestro (Florence 1930); Il pensiero morale e pedagogico di Plutarco (ibid. 1937).