MIGNOSI, PIETRO. - Philosopher, b. in Palermo on 28 June 1895, d. in Milan on 15 July 1937.

He conceived of art as a reflection of Revelation (Arte e Rivelazione, Palermo 1933) and as a "conquest of a religious center of life" (Idee sull'arte, ibid. 1931), and he informed his activity with this vision: as an original literary critic (L'eredità dell'Ottocento, Turin 1925; Profili e problemi, Palermo 1927; La poesia italiana di questo secolo, ibid. 1929; Linee di una storia della poesia italiana, ibid. 1933; Il segreto di Pirandello, ibid. 1935); as a narrator who, moving within the artistic climate of Verga, resolves in a Christian manner the problems stirred up in his novels and short stories (Il prossimo, ibid. 1928; Perfetta letizia, Pistoia 1931; L'Azzalora, Catania 1931; Gioia d'agave, ibid. 1934); as a poet Franciscanly inclined toward created beings (Levamen, Palermo 1922; Epica e santità, ibid. 1925; Crescere, ibid. 1931).

His thought, after an initial idealistic crisis, took definitive shape according to the doctrine of the Church (L'unità filosofica, ibid. 1920; I limiti della religiosità, Rome 1924; Etica del cristianesimo, Messina 1925; Schelling, Milan 1925; Critica dell'identità, Palermo 1926; L'idealismo, Milan 1927; Conoscenza e trascendenza, Palermo 1927; Ragione e Rivelazione, ibid. 1930; Schopenhauer, Brescia 1937). With the journal Tradizione, which he founded in Palermo in 1928 and directed for eight years, he sought to defend the values of Christianity against contemporary deviations.

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BIBL.: O. De Seta, P. M. e la nuova cultura cattolica italiana, Naples 1931; L. Tonelli, P. M., in Italia che scrive, 15 (1932), p. 65; G. Petralia, M. ovvero della trascendenza, Palermo 1935; P. Apostoliti, M. narratore, Catania 1935; G. Ravegnani, I contemporanei, 2nd series, Modena 1936, pp. 37-43; special issue of Tradizione (Sept.-Oct. 1937); V. Schiltrò, Antologia mignosiana (with introductory study), Turin 1939 (on which cf. G. Croci, In margine a una antologia mignosiana, in Civ. Catt., 1940, 1, p. 141 ff.).

Enzo Navarra

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