Filippo Aliquò Taverriti (Reggio Calabria, 19 July 1902 – Reggio Calabria, 29 March 1976 ) was an Italian journalist, essayist and lexicographer.
Biography Taverriti was the son of the writer and librarian Luigi Aliquò Lenzi.Filippo Aliquò Taverriti, Luigi Aliquò Lenzi, Reggio Calabria: Tipografia Fata Morgana, 1945 He began his journalistic activity at a very young age: at just twenty he collaborated with Orazio Cipriani's Corriere di Calabria. From 1937, he directed the monthly Reggio Emilia Agricoltura e Commercio (which was founded in 1936 as the continuation of the periodical L'agricoltura Calabrese)., V, Cosenza, Pellegrini periodicals series, 2002, p. 128.
Taverriti was a correspondent for numerous national newspapers such as Il Messaggero, and a co-director of the newspaper La Voce di Calabria after the Second World War. In 1953, he founded the weekly newspaper Corriere di Reggio, which lasted until the mid-1990s.A.La Tella, "Apostolo civili", in Il Tempo of March 1976: «After the war, with the flourishing of newspapers, the project of a daily newspaper was established, which until then had seemed like a crazy project (the experience of the "Corriere di Calabria" had demonstrated how difficult it was to create a publishing business from nothing). After the daily newspaper he founded the weekly [the "Corriere di Reggio"], without ever taking his eyes off the books."
Taverriti was also active in the regional political life, having been among the founders of the Christian Democracy in Calabria.Cesare Mulè, Christian Democracy in Calabria, 1943-1949: the Christian-democratic movement and the peasant struggles, Rome, Cinque lune, 1948, p. 48.
With his father Luigi, he was the co-founder of the second edition of the bio-bibliographic dictionary of Calabrian writers,L. Aliquò Lenzi and F. Aliquò Taverriti, The Calabrian writers: bio-bibliographical dictionary, Reggio Calabria: Corriere di Reggio, 1955-58, 4 vols. as well as the author of historical essays including those covering the 1908 Messina earthquake,Filippo Aliquò Taverriti, Reggio 1908-1958: the celebrations on the fiftieth anniversary of the earthquake of 28 December, 2 vols., Reggio Calabria: Corriere di Reggio, 1958-59Filippo Aliquò Taverriti, Reggio 1908: on the ruins after the catastrophe, the miracle of a resurrected city . Reggio Calabria: Corriere di Reggio, 1986 and the monograph on the contribution of the Calabrieni to Garibaldi's undertaking.Filippo Aliquò Taverriti, Calabria for the Unification of Italy: in the first centenary of Garibaldi's enterprise, Reggio Calabria: Corriere di Reggio, 1960.
He was the father of , an Italian lawyer, politician, journalist, and historian.
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