Friday, April 4, 2014

MONUMENT TO NICOLA SPEDALIERI

MONUMENTO A NICOLA SPEDALIERI
1898 Mario Rutelli (1859/1943)
The monument was placed in front of S. Andrea Della Valle only in 1903 and then moved here in 1957 to make room for the fountain by Carlo Maderno
Nicola Spedalieri (1740/95) was a priest, philosopher and writer, author of "About Human Rights" of 1791. He rejected the deistic and atheistic character of the French Revolution, but he defended the rights of man proclaimed by it and he reckoned those rights as fundamentally Christian, considering the popular sovereignty as the foundation of government power

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