Ernesto Nathan

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Ernesto Nathan (5 October 1848 – 9 April 1921) was an English-Italian politician who was the mayor of Rome from November 1907 to December 1913.

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Biography Nathan was born in London in 1845 to Sara Levi, an Italian from Pesaro, and Mayer Moses Nathan, a naturalised Briton of German origin, both of Jewish heritage. His father died when Ernesto was a teenager. He spent his youth in Florence, Lugano, Milan and Sardinia, where he administered a cotton mill. He was attracted by the revolutionary ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini, and in 1870, at 25, he moved to Rome as administrator of La Roma del Popolo. His house in Rome became a centre of literarian and political debate, with figures like Giosuè Carducci and Francesco Crispi Nine years later he was a member Parliament for Crispi's left-wing party. In 1888 he obtained Italian citizenship. In 1887 he became a member of the Masonic Grande Oriente d'Italia, of which he was named Grand Master in 1899 and later in 1917. In April 1889, Nathan was elected to the Town Council of Rome, and was elected mayor of the city in November 1907. He retained the charge until 1913, and was elected for a second time in November 1911. The first mayor of Rome who did not belong to the land-owning elite which had controlled politics in the city…Citește mai mult

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Sources Claudio Rendina, Enciclopedia di Roma, Newton Compton, Rome, 2000.

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External links David B. Green, "This Day in Jewish History 1907: A Jew Who Would Irk the Vatican Becomes Mayor of Rome", Haaretz, Nov 25, 2015