Luciano Miori (1901–1985) was a teacher of Latin at the Regio Liceo-Ginnasio “Vittorio Emanuele III” in Rovereto. He became a member of the Fascist party in 1924, was orator for the Fascist youth organization (Opera Nazionale Balilla), and translated three speeches of Mussolini into Latin (Miori 1937; Luggin 2020: 138–139). He did, on the other hand, criticize both the occupation of Abyssinia and Italy’s participation in the Second World War (Vettori 1991: 14–16; Luggin 2020: 129–130); one of his former students regarded Miori’s association with Fascism as an “illusione giovanile” (Leonardi 1991: 128). Miori translated both Greek and Latin classics into Italian and promoted the active use of Latin also after the ventennio fascista (Luggin 2020: 115, with references). He authored a collection of Latin verses discussing places in Europe that he visited in the 1960s (Miori 1991).

Bibliography

Latin texts

Miori, Luciano. 1937. Orationes tres praecipuas, quibus bellum Aethiopicum restitutamque Imperii maiestatem Benitus Mussolini Italorum dux est prosecutus, e novo in antiquum sermonem transtulit L. Miori. Rovereto: Tipografia Carlo Tomasi.

———. 1991. ‘Poesie latine’, edited by Fabio Rosa. In Luciano Miori: La figura e l’opera, 48–123. Rovereto: Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati.

Secondary sources

Leonardi, Claudio. 1991. ‘L’inafferrabile segreto. Ricordo di Luciano Miori’. In Luciano Miori: La figura e l’opera, 125–28. Rovereto: Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati.

Luggin, Johanna. 2020. ‘Imperium iam tandem Italiae restitutum est. Lateinische Übersetzungen der Reden Mussolinis’. In Studies in the Latin Literature and Epigraphy of Italian Fascism, edited by Han Lamers, Bettina Reitz-Joosse, and Valerio Sanzotta, 105–42. Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 46. Leuven: Leuven University Press.

Vettori, Danilo. 1991. ‘Luciano Miori: Ritratto di un uomo’. In Luciano Miori: La figura e l’opera, 9–30. Rovereto: Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati.

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