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Lorenzo Milani Comparetti (27 May 1923 – 26 June 1967) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest. He is best known as an educator of poor children and an advocate of conscientious objection. ==Biography== Lorenzo Milani was born in Florence in 1923 to a rich middle-class family. His father, Albano Milani, and his mother, Alice Weiss, were staunch secularists. Alice Weiss was Jewish and a cousin of Edoardo Weiss, one of Sigmund Freud's earliest disciples and the founder of the Italian Psychoanalytic Association. Milani's paternal grandfather was Domenico Comparetti, a leading nineteenth-century philologist, and it is no accident that, as an educationist, Milani was a firm believer in the importance of learning how to use words effectively.〔(Don Lorenzo Milani: Biografia ) (In Italian)〕 In June 1943, after a period of study at the Brera Academy, Milani converted to Roman Catholicism. A chance conversation with Don Raffaele Bensi, who later became his spiritual director, appears to have played an important part in this. Milani's was a conversion both from agnosticism to religious faith and from well-off complacency to solidarity with the poor and despised. Ordained a priest in 1947, he was sent to assist Don Daniele Pugi, the old parish priest of San Donato in Calenzano, where he set up his first "school of the people" (''scuola popolare''), open to children from both believing and nonbelieving families. This scandalized conservative Catholic circles. After Pugi's death in 1954, Milani was sent "into exile" at Barbiana, a small, remote village in the Mugello region.〔 At Barbiana, despite both clerical and lay opposition, Milani continued his radical educational activities. In the spring of 1958, he published his first book, ''Pastoral Experiences'' (''Esperienze pastorali''). In December the Holy Office, despite failing to find in it any errors of doctrine or breaches of ecclesiastical discipline, ordered its withdrawal from circulation〔 as "inopportune".〔Bruzzesi, Lanfranco. ("Don Lorenzo Milani" ) (in Italian)〕 In 1965, Milani was put on trial for advocating conscientious objection in his "Letter to Military Chaplains" ("Lettera ai cappellani militari").〔(''A Soldier Too Has a Conscience — The Trial of Don Milani'' ). Translated by Gerry Blaylock.〕 Working with his pupils, Milani produced ''Letter to a Teacher'' (''Lettera a una professoressa''), denouncing the inequalities of a class-based educational system that advantaged the children of the rich over those of the poor.〔(''Letter to a Teacher'' ). Translated by Nora Rossi and Tom Cole.〕 Translated into about forty languages, ''Letter to a Teacher'' is a pedagogical classic that continues to shock and inspire. It was composed by eight boys from the school of Barbiana, according to the "group writing" method, in a year-long project coordinated by Milani.〔(Don Lorenzo Milani: A brief biography )〕 In 1967, shortly after the publication of ''Letter to a Teacher'' and thirty days after his 44th birthday, Milani died in his mother's house in Florence of leukemia.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lorenzo Milani」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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