Carlo Santucci

Carlo Maria Santucci (9 February 1849 – 29 July 1932) was an Italian lawyer and politician.

Biography

Carlo Santucci was born in Velletri, the son of Luigi Santucci and his wife Maria. A student at the Roman Jesuit college and an 1872 graduate of La Sapienza University in Rome, he became a lawyer by profession and one of the most representative men of Roman Catholic Action.

In 1879 he took part as secretary in the meetings at the house of Paolo Di Campello, sharing the project of establishing a national conservative party that would include Catholics in the political life of the unified Italian state. That plan failed and in 1881 Santucci participated in the founding and was vice-president of the Roman Circle of Social Studies, of a moderately conciliatory inspiration, and contributed to the birth of the journal La Rassegna Nazionale, the voice of national conservatives in the capital.

He chaired the Catholic Electoral Union and, as a city councilor, supported the political alliance between Catholics and liberals, taking the role of opposition leader during the years of the leftist junta led by Ernesto Nathan. He was a personality particularly close to the reforming work of Luigi Maria Olivares during the years when he was parish priest at the Church of Santa Maria Liberatrice a Monte Testaccio.

A scholar of canon law, he was a close collaborator of Cardinal Pietro Gasparri in the work of reforming the relevant code, which later came into force in 1917.

Appointed senator of the Kingdom in 1919, he played a role between 1923 and 1925 in the negotiations for the concordat between Church and State.

A trustee and president of the Banco di Roma, he was vice president of the St Peter's Circle and collaborated with numerous Catholic-oriented newspapers and periodicals in the capital.

Carlo Santucci died in Rome from an automobile accident.

Works

• L'insegnamento religioso nello stato presente della nostra legislazione scolastica (1911)
• Editto di Milano nei riguardi del diritto (1913)
• L'ora presente e il Partito Popolare Italiano. Discorso del Senatore Carlo Santucci pronunziato nella tornata del 28 dicembre 1919 (1920)
• Consigli ai terziari francescani: conferenze tenute ai terziari novizi nell’oratorio di S. Maria in Aracoeli in Roma (1926)
• Manuale completo del Terz'Ordine francescano (1933)

References

• Baragli, Matteo (2017). "Santucci, Carlo." In: Dizionario biografico degli italiani, Vol. 90. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
• De Rosa, Gabriele (1961). "Carlo Santucci e il progetto di un Partito cattolico parlamentare (1903)," Rivista di storia della chiesa in Italia, Anno XV, No. 2, pp. 286–316.
• De Rosa, Gabriele (1962). I Conservatori nazionali: Biografia di Carlo Santucci. Brescia: Morcelliana.
• Margiotta Broglio, Francesco (1963). "Dalle «guarentigie» alla conciliazione. Il progetto Santucci di riforma della legge 13 maggio 1871," Nuova Antologia, Vol. XCVIII, pp. 1–40.