Ernesto Colli (priest)

Ernesto Colli
Born1 April 1899
Gravellona Lomellina
Died29 September 1989 (aged 90)
Galliate
NationalityItalian
CitizenshipItalian
Occupation(s)priest, historian
Known forworks on the history of Lower Novarese

Ernesto Colli (born April 1, 1899, dead September 29, 1989) was an Italian priest and historian, known for his works on Lower Novarese.

Biography

Son of Battista and Maria Anna Cusaro, he had three older siblings: Giuseppe, Luisa and Carolina.[1] He was also the cousin of Lino Cassani, with whom he collaborated in the writing of several works.[2]

He was conscripted in 1917 and discharged in 1920.[3]. This made of him a ragazzo del '99 (boy of '99) – he was later a member of the related national association I Ragazzi del '99.[4]

In 1920 he lost his father, aged 56, to the after-effects of Spanish flu.[5]

He was ordained a priest on July 6, 1924 and celebrated his first mass in Gravellona Lomellina the following Sunday.[3] He later became assistant parish priest in Vespolate (1925-1928) and parish priest in Mergozzo (1929-1941) and in Nibbiola (1942-1989).[6]

In 1952 he lost his mother, aged 80.[7]

He was a member of the Società Storica Novarese[8][9], in whose magazine he published an article on Vespolate castle in 1982.

He died on September 29, 1989 in Galliate and was buried in Nibbiola.[6]

Acknoledgements

The municipality of Nibbiola named the nursery school after him on 22 August 2011.[10] Still in Nibbiola, a street bears his name.[11]

Various articles were dedicated to him, including one in the magazine of the National Association I Ragazzi del '99 in 1973[12] and one in the magazine of the Società Storica Novarese in 2002.[13]

Honors

Cavaliere dell'Ordine di Vittorio Veneto - ribbon for ordinary uniform
Cavaliere dell'Ordine di Vittorio Veneto - ribbon for ordinary uniform
 Knight of the Order of Vittorio Veneto
"For recognized combat merits"
— 26 maggio 1973[14]

Works

Ernesto Colli has published numerous volumes on the history of the towns of the Lower Novarese and Lomellina, with an extremely simple and linear style.[12]

His works range from local history to customs and folklore. To compose them, he visited every village, consulted the municipal and parish archives, and interviewed the inhabitants themselves, over a period of over for decades. In this way, important figures, the origins of places, the events of noble families, and the forgotten works of art in churches and country chapels were brought back to common knowledge.[12]

As proof of the relevance of these works, several elementary schools have adopted them as textbooks.[12]

Monographs on villages

  • Mergozzo nella sua storia, Tip. Cattaneo, Novara, 1933
  • Mergozzo nella sua storia - Opuscolo secondo, Arti Grafiche Airoldi, Intra, 1935
  • Memorie storiche di Garbagna Novarese, with Lino Cassani, Tip. Pietro Riva e C., Novara, 1948
  • Nibbiola nella sua storia, Tip. San Gaudenzio, Novara, 1952
  • Vespolate nella sua storia, with Lino Cassani, Tip. Provera, Novara, 1956
  • Gravellona Lomellina nella sua storia, Tip. San Gaudenzio, Novara, 1960
  • Barbavara di Gravellona Lomellina, Tip. La Moderna, Novara, 1964
  • Tornaco e Vignarello nella loro storia, Tip. F.lli Paltrinieri, Novara, 1967
  • Villanova di Cassolo nel quarto centenario della nascita di S. Luigi Gonzaga - 1568-1968, Tip. F.lli Paltrinieri, Novara, 1968
  • Dott. Comm. Mons. Carlo Fusi e Terdobbiate, Tip. San Gaudenzio, Novara, 1970
  • Olengo di Novara nella sua storia, with Gino Giarda, Tip. San Gaudenzio, Novara, 1973
  • Vespolate nella sua storia - Secondo volume, with Guido Longhi, Tip. San Gaudenzio, Novara, 1988

Other works

  • Primo decennio dell'Asilo (1962-1972) - Tradizioni di S. Caterina V. e M., Tip. San Gaudenzio, Novara, 1972
  • Garbagna, Nibbiola, Vespolate, Borgolavezzaro - Spunti di storia per le scuole medie - Le mie memorie, Tip. San Gaudenzio, Novara, 1978
  • Nobis in ARCA navigare oportuit, with Eugenio Manni, Novara, 1981
  • Il Castello-Rocca di Vespolate, Tip. La Cupola, Novara, 1982 (extracted from the article on the Bollettino Storico per la Provincia di Novara of the same year)
  • Vespolate Mergozzo Nibbiola, Tip. San Gaudenzio, Novara, 1985
  • Cronistoria della parrocchia B. V. Assunta in S. Caterina V. M., manuscript 1942-1989

References

  1. ^ Colli 1978, p. 113.
  2. ^ Lino Cassani; Ernesto Colli (1948). "Garbagna Novarese". Memorie storiche di Garbagna Novarese [Historical memories of Garbagna Novarese] (in Italian). Novara: Pietro Riva & C. p. 13. Retrieved 8 November 2021 – via Foto Emilio Alzati.
  3. ^ a b Ernesto Colli (1985). "I tre ragazzi del '99" [The three boys of '99]. Vespolate Mergozzo Nibbiola (in Italian). Novara: Tip. San Gaudenzio. p. 105. Retrieved 9 November 2021 – via Foto Emilio Alzati.
  4. ^ Il Tascapane 1973.
  5. ^ Colli 1978, p. 124.
  6. ^ a b "Oggi, 29 Settembre, ricordiamo..." [Today, September 29th, we remember...]. Diocesi di Novara (in Italian). 29 September 2021. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  7. ^ "Mergozzo - Tre lutti" [Mergozzo - Three deaths]. Risveglio ossolano (in Italian). No. 8. Domodossola. 27 February 1952. p. 2. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
  8. ^ "Componenti della Società Storica Novarese - 1958" [Members of the Novara Historical Society - 1958]. Società Storica Novarese (in Italian). 30 November 2020. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  9. ^ "Sezione di Novara della R. Deputazione Subalpina di Storia Patria - 1935" [Novara section of the Royal Subalpine Deputation of National History - 1935]. Società Storica Novarese (in Italian). 30 November 2020. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  10. ^ "Delibera n. 20/2011" [Deliberation No. 20/2011]. Comune di Nibbiola (in Italian). 22 August 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  11. ^ "Via Don Ernesto Colli, Nibbiola" [Don Ernesto Colli street, Nibbiola]. Street2House.it (in Italian). Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  12. ^ a b c d Ernesto Colli; Mario Nagari (1985). "Recensioni" [Reviews]. Vespolate Mergozzo Nibbiola (in Italian). Novara: Tip. San Gaudenzio. p. 107. Retrieved 9 November 2021 – via Foto Emilio Alzati.
  13. ^ "Bollettino Storico per la Provincia di Novara" [Historical Bulletin for the Province of Novara]. Società Storica Novarese (in Italian). 30 April 2021. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  14. ^ Colli 1978, p. 125.

Bibliography

  • Colli, Ernesto (1978). "Le mie memorie" [My memoirs]. Garbagna, Nibbiola, Vespolate, Borgolavezzaro - Spunti di storia per le scuole medie - Le mie memorie [Garbagna, Nibbiola, Vespolate, Borgolavezzaro - History notes for middle school students - My memoirs] (in Italian). Novara: Tip. San Gaudenzio. pp. 107–148. Retrieved 11 November 2021 – via Foto Emilio Alzati.
  • "Un «Ragazzo» che si fa onore e che onora la nostra classe" [A «Boy» who does himself proud and who honors our class]. Il Tascapane (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale «Ragazzi del '99». 1973., insert «La Domenica del Corriere».
  • Rossari, Maria Cristina (2002). "Una singolare figura di curato (don E. Colli)" [An unusual kind of priest (Don E. Colli)]. Bollettino Storico per la provincia di Novara (in Italian) (1). Novara: Società Storica Novarese: 249–288.
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