Shantidas lanza del vasto biography
Shantidas lanza del vasto biography
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Lanza del Vasto
Italian activist
Lanza del Vasto | |
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Lanza del Vasto | |
| Born | Giuseppe Giovanni Luigi Enrico Lanza di Trabia-Branciforte (1901-09-29)29 September 1901 San Vito dei Normanni, Italy |
| Died | 5 January 1981(1981-01-05) (aged 79) Murcia, Spain |
| Occupation(s) | Philosopher, poet, artist, and nonviolent activist. |
Lanza del Vasto (born Giuseppe Giovanni Luigi Maria Enrico Lanza di Trabia-Branciforte;[1] 29 September 1901 – 6 January 1981) was an Italian philosopher, poet, artist, Catholic and nonviolent activist.
He was born in San Vito dei Normanni, Italy and died in Murcia, Spain.[citation needed]
A western disciple of Mohandas K. Gandhi, he worked for inter-religious dialogue, spiritual renewal, ecological activism and nonviolence.[citation needed]
Youth in Italy
His father, Don Luigi Giuseppe Lanza di Trabia-Branciforte, was Sicilian and his mother, Anne-Marie Henriette Nauts-Oedenkoven,[1