THE CITIZEN OF BRESCIA. - A Brescian Catholic daily newspaper of a local character but of wider resonance because of the personality of its best-known editor, Giorgio Montini, and because it was the expression of one of the Italian regions with the most pronounced political education.

Under the editorship of Giorgio Montini, in fact, the newspaper launched in 1880 the formula "preparation in abstention," setting it against the more intransigent one of "neither elected nor electors" of Fr. Margotti and of the Unità Cattolica. The formula, taken up again by Fr. Albertario and by Filippo Meda in the Osservatore cattolico of the second period, contributed to bringing about the new direction of the political movement of Catholics that led them first to the "Catholic deputies," and then to full entry into political life. Like almost all Catholic daily newspapers, Il C. di Brescia then joined the Italian People's Party and with it was swept away by the Fascist reaction in 1926. In its last years it had been edited by Carlo Bresciani, a member of Parliament like Montini. It had been founded in 1878.

Bibliography

BIBL.: S. Negro and A. Lazzarini, Uomini e giornali, Florence 1947, pp. 70-84.

Enrico Lucatello

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The Citizen of Brescia

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