Avatarurile Academiei Române sub comunism. Relaţiile cu mediul academic italian: Giuseppe Lugli - membru al Academiei Române
Romanian Academy under communism. The relations with the Italian academic environment: Giuseppe Lugli - member of the Romanian Academy

Summary/Abstract: The Italian historian, topographer and archaeologist Giuseppe Lugli (1890-1967) is mentioned in Italian historiography for the contributions on the study of Ancient Rome's monuments, on the Roman suburban villas, for publishing the corpus of pertinent epigraphic sources of the Roman topography and for promoting aerial pictures as a groundbreaking research method in his domain. His connections with the Romanian School in Rome - where he worked first as a secretary and then as a scientific adviser, throughout its whole existence, from 1922 to 1947 - and his role in developing Romanian - Italian cultural relationships both in the inter-war period and after the World War II, all these nominated him as one of the pro-Romanian Italian scholars. His scientific merits and, at the same time, the contribution to the development of the Romanian-Italian relationships, have determined the election of G. Lugli as a foreign corresponding member of the Romanian Academy on July 8th 1926, following the proposal of Vasile Pârvan, at the time the Secretary General of the Romanian Academy and the headmaster of the Romanian School in Rome. Professor Lugli maintained a relationship with Romania in the post-war years, contributing to a series of pro-Latin cultural initiatives of the period (the celebration of the bimillenium of the poet Ovidiu in autumn 1957 or the bringing to Bucharest, in 1967, of the copies of Trajan's column, manufactured at the beginning of World War II and kept in Rome until that time). As a consequence, the R.P.R. Academy reconfirmed G. Lugli on February 3rd 1965 as an honorary member of the highest scientific institution in our country. Professor Lugli enjoyed the recognition of his work first in Italy and then in the pontifical medium, being chosen, in 1938, as corresponding member of the most prestigious Italian Academy, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Having become a tenured member of the previously mentioned Academy in 1946, Giuseppe Lugli would improve the relationships with post-war Romania mainly as a representative of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and as a former scientific adviser of the Romanian school in Rome. The documents published in the appendix contain information regarding the relationship between the Romanian Academy and Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in the 1957-73 period and are relevant for reconstructing the dynamic of external relationships of the Romanian Academy, being confronted at the time with the pressures of the ideocratic regime.

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