MANGANO, VINCENZO. - Journalist and politician, an influential member of the regional and national organizations of Catholic Action. Born in Palermo on 5 October 1866, died in Rome on 16 June 1940. As a young man he contributed to various local newspapers and took part, alongside Toniolo, in the Catholic conferences on social studies. He stood beside d. Luigi Sturzo in the founding of the Popular Party, and was an editor of Il popolo from its foundation. During Fascism he lived in isolation, devoted to his studies. He was the author of numerous writings, some of which are still unpublished.
The complete bibliography may be found in the biography written by G. Intersimone (v. M., L'uomo e il pensatore, Rome 1945, pp. 91-100). The following works on social ethics may be noted here: Criminaloids (ibid. 1900), Marriage and Divorce (Siena 1901); on philosophy: Scotus Eriugena and Giordano Bruno (Palermo 1907); on domestic and foreign policy and sociology: Political Questions of the Day... (Rome 1918); The Law on the Latifundium (ibid. 1922); The Crisis of Peace from Genoa to The Hague (ibid. 1922); The Social and Political Thought of Leo XIII (Isola del Liri 1931); The Scholarly Work of G. Toniolo (Rome 1939); Nicola Spedalieri and the Rights of Man (Amatrice 1940). Among the unpublished works, the following are considered particularly interesting: The Great Italian Crisis. A Documented Analysis of the Fascist Movement (written in 1923); and a commentary on the De regimine principum of St Thomas, composed between 1928 and 1929 and regarded as his masterpiece.