SOCIETÀ DANTE ALIGHIERI - Enciclopedia Cattolica, Vol. XI, p. 513

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

DANTE ALIGHIERI SOCIETY. - Founded in Rome in 1889 at the initiative of Giacomo Veneziani.

Its aim is "to safeguard and spread the Italian language and culture throughout the world, keeping the spirit of Italian identity alive everywhere, strengthening the spiritual ties of compatriots abroad with their mother country, and fostering among foreigners a love and reverence for Italian civilization" (art. 1 of the Society’s Statute). It pursues these goals through its committees abroad, which are responsible for organizing schools, language and culture courses, lectures, concerts, art exhibitions,

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Article illustration — (Courtesy of the Dante Alighieri Society) Dante Alighieri Society – Founding Manifesto, Rome, July 1889.

Before the 1915–18 war, the Dante Alighieri Society carried out, among other activities, an intense campaign for the redemption of Italian lands, particularly effective in the years when the government