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Lanza del Vasto (Giuseppe Giovanni Luigi Enrico Lanza di Trabia-Branciforte) was born on 29 September, 1901 in San Vito dei Normanni, Italy, is an Italian activist. Discover Lanza del Vasto's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

Popular As Giuseppe Giovanni Luigi Enrico Lanza di Trabia-Branciforte
Occupation Philosopher, poet, artist, and nonviolent activist.
Age 80 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 29 September 1901
Birthday 29 September
Birthplace San Vito dei Normanni, Italy
Date of death 1981
Died Place Murcia, Spain
Nationality Italy

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1901

Lanza del Vasto (born Giuseppe Giovanni Luigi Maria Enrico Lanza di Trabia-Branciforte; 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.

A western disciple of Mohandas K. Gandhi, he worked for inter-religious dialogue, spiritual renewal, ecological activism and nonviolence.

His father, Don Luigi Giuseppe Lanza di Trabia-Branciforte, was Sicilian and his mother, Anne-Marie Henriette Nauts-Oedenkoven, was born in Antwerp, in Belgium.

Very early he traveled in Italy and Europe.

1922

He entered the University of Pisa in 1922.

1936

In December 1936, Lanza went to India, joining the movement for Indian independence led by Gandhi.

He knew of Gandhi through a book by Romain Rolland.

1937

He spent six months with the Mahatma, then in June 1937, went to the sources of the Ganges and the Yamuna rivers in the Himalayas, a famous pilgrimage site.

There he saw a vision which told him "Go back and found!"

He then returned to Europe.

1938

In 1938, he went to Palestine, then in the midst of civil war, to Jerusalem and Bethlehem, "between two lines of tanks".

He came back to Paris at the time when the Second World War started.

1943

He wrote some books of poetry and in 1943 published the story of his trip to India, Return to the Source, which became a huge success.

1948

He founded the Community of the Ark in 1948 which first met with many difficulties.

1954

In 1954, he returned to India to participate in nonviolent anti-feudal struggles with Vinoba Bhave.

1957

In 1957, during the Algerian War, del Vasto started with other well-known people (General de Bollardière, François Mauriac, Robert Barrat, etc.) a movement of protest against torture.

He fasted for 21 days.

1958

In 1958, he demonstrated against the nuclear power plant in Marcoule, France, which produced plutonium for nuclear weapons.

1962

In 1962 the Community of the Ark settled in Haut-Languedoc, in the south of France, at "La Borie Noble", near Lodève, in a deserted village.

1963

In 1963, he fasted for 40 days in Rome during the Second Vatican Council, asking Pope John XXIII to stand against war - "Pour demander au Pape de prendre position contre la guerre."

1965

In 1965 he was at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, talking about non-violence during weeks with the students.

1970

After numbering over a hundred members in the 1970s and 1980s, some communities were closed in the 1990s due to conflicts, ageing population (under thirty members) and a lack of interest in their work and lifestyle.

1972

In 1972, he supported the farmers of the Larzac plateau against the extension of a military base while fasting for 15 days.

1974

In 1974 a community of the Ark settled in the Larzac in a farmhouse bought by the army.

1976

In 1976, he participated in the demonstrations against the building of the fast breeder reactor Superphénix at Creys-Malville, Isère (France).

1981

In January 1981, del Vasto was working to found a new community in Elche de la Sierra, in the spanish province of Albacete, when on January 5, he had a brain hemorrhage and was taken to the hospital of Ciudad Sanitaria Virgen de La Arrixaca in Murcia.

He died there on Jan 6.

2000

Since 2000, groups are present in a few regions of France, in Belgium, Spain, Italy, Ecuador and Canada.