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Cino Vitta (Florence, May 26, 1873 - Florence, January 4, 1956) was an Italian jurist, academic and art collector of Jewish heritage.

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Biography

Vitta was born in Florence on May 26, 1873, to Annetta and Edoardo Modigliani, a wealthy Jewish family of Piedmontese origin. From a young age he showed a special interest in law, which enabled him to achieve a brilliant career in academia. In 1912 he married Emma Melli. The couple had one son, Edward. [1]

With Santi Romano, Oreste Ranelletti, Federico Cammeo and Ugo Forti, he was part of the so-called Italian School that based administrative law on the teachings of Vittorio Emanuele Orlando. [2]

During the years of World War I he was mayor of the municipality of Tavarnelle Val di Pesa. After the war he became an administrator in the municipality of Florence, and was later appointed a member of the reform commissions chaired by Ugo Forti for the reorganization of the state. He was also appointed president of the Israelite Community of Florence. [2]

He died in Florence on January 4, 1956.

Academic career

In 1907, Vitta was awarded tenure in administrative law and, in 1910, was appointed extraordinary professor of administrative law and science of administration at the Cesare Alfieri Institute in Florence.

In 1920 he won the competition for the chair of administrative law at the University of Cagliari, where he taught until 1927, then moved first to the University of Modena, then to the University of Turin, in 1932. His work in Italian law was accompanied, in the early part of the 1930s, by a series of experiences abroad for courses in international law, where he taught, among other institutions He was a lecturer at the Académie de droit international in The Hague between 1930 and 1936 [1] .Between 1933 and 1935 he wrote Administrative Law in two volumes, his major work.

In 1938 Benito Mussolini's fascist racial laws banned him, as a Jew, from teaching in academies and cultural institutes in Italy. Forced to abandon university teaching, he hid for years with his wife in an asylum in the province of Siena, with the help of a doctor friend. He resumed teaching after the war, in 1944.

In 1949 he was appointed professor emeritus in recognition of his high intellectual and scientific qualities by the University of Turin. [3]

After the war, he was released from teaching and assigned to do research on eastern public law. [1]

Art collector

Vitta had an art collection that was looted during the Nazi era. [4] Heirs filed claims for five paintings from the Macchiaioli school, including “Woman Rocking a Baby” by Odoardo Borrani and “The Baker’s Shop at Settignano” by Telemaco Signorini. [5] Some of the artworks were later restituted or the object of a settlement. [6] [7]

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  1. 1 2 3 scienzaevergognaunito (2018-10-30). "CINO VITTA (1873-1956)". Scienza e vergogna (in Italian).
  2. 1 2 ""Comitato Nazionale per le celebrazioni del centenario dell'opera "Giustizia Amministrativa" di Cino Vitta MINISTERO PER I BENI E LE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI". 2023-01-15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-01-15. Retrieved 2023-01-15.
  3. Giovanni Miele, Cino Vitta, in Rivista trimestrale di diritto pubblico, 1956, pp. 191
  4. "Italy Seizes New Zealand Paintings". AP NEWS. Retrieved 2023-01-15. New Zealand's Public Art Gallery bought all the paintings and two others from a local resident in 1994 for just $11,000. The gallery's curator, Peter Entwisle, described them as the most important historical find in New Zealand in 30 years and their purchase as a major coup. The New Zealand Herald reported Saturday that the works, loaned to Italy for an exhibition, were recently confiscated by the superintendent of art in Florence after Vitta's brothers claimed they were stolen and sought their return.
  5. "RESOLVED STOLEN ART CLAIMS CLAIMS FOR ART STOLEN DURING THE NAZI ERA AND WORLD WAR II, INCLUDING NAZI-LOOTED ART AND TROPHY ART*" (PDF).
  6. "The stolen art that found its way home". The Independent. 1999-11-13. Retrieved 2023-01-15.
  7. "ARBITRATING CULTURAL PROPERTY DISPUTES" (PDF). In the heirs of Cino Vitta's claim against the New Zealand Public Gallery of Art for five paintings from the Macchiaioli school in 1999, a compromise was reached where the museum retained three works and two works were auctioned for the benefit of the claimants.

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