Ideały towianizmu w życiowej praktyce – Umberto Zanotti Bianco (1889–1963)
Ideals of Andrzej Towiański’s thought in life practice – Umberto Zanotti Bianco (1889–1963)

Author(s): Olga Płaszczewska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Umberto Zanotti Bianco; Andrzej Towiański’s thought; Attilio Begey; Antonio Fogazzaro; polsko-włoskie związki kulturowe i literackie; dziedzictwo romantyzmu; Catholicism and heterodoxy
Summary/Abstract: Main purpose of the essay is to reflect on the particular influence that Andrzej Towiański’s thought exercised on an Italian politician and writer, Umberto Zanotti Bianco (known also as Giorgio D’Acandia). Zanotti Bianco was an enthusiast of so called „Polish question” in the times of the First World War and as a young man he had been raised by Attillo Begey (1843–1928), one of the first disciples of Towiański in Italy. The essay consists in an analysis of a cycle of Zanotti Bianco’s autobiographical short stories combined with a reflection on his intellectual and spiritual formation as a result of the assimilation of Towiański’s ideas. Besides, the problem of living the Gospel in secular activities is discusses as a consequence of Towiański’s thought internalisation. Moreover, the relationship between the master (Begey) and the disciple (Zanotti Bianco) is read in the light of Towiański’s teaching.

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