{"id":1370,"date":"2026-06-23T09:17:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discoverscilla.com\/?page_id=1370"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:24:47","slug":"casa-natale-di-giovanni-minasi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverscilla.com\/en\/casa-natale-di-giovanni-minasi\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthplace of Giovanni Minasi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1331.2px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p class=\"translation-block\">Our historian, Canon Giovanni Minasi, echoing the warning of Pliny, observed that it is shameful to live in one\u2019s\nhomeland and remain ignorant of it: \u00abTurpe est vivere in patria et patriam ignorare\u00bb.<br> It was precisely in order\nnot to remain ignorant of its events and destiny that he became an active researcher in the archives of Naples,\nRome, Palermo and Messina, seeking every document that concerned, directly or indirectly, our Town.<br> His intention\nwas to reconstruct the history of Scilla from the most remote times, convinced that \u00abthe principal aim\nthat every honest citizen should pursue is to make himself useful to his Homeland by employing every means to\npromote its moral and civil well-being\u00bb.<br>\nFrom the conviction that history, after religion, is the guide and teacher of peoples \u2014 \u00abpowerfully contributing\nto the improvement of social life\u00bb \u2014 his work as an intelligent and prudent researcher drew its strength.\nThis made him deserving of recognition in the world of culture, especially among his Town and fellow citizens,\nwhom he hoped would take example from the diligence, courage, active commitment in every field, religiosity\nand fortitude with which our ancestors fought against their overbearing feudal lords, dedicating themselves\nto the struggle until victory from one century to the next and leaving the clear testimony that \u00abwith civilised\npeoples, oppression struggles in vain\u00bb.\nHis Historical Notices of the City of Scilla lead us step by step through the unfolding of the events that involved\nour Town, which at times became a protagonist itself.<br>\nIt is a historical reconstruction divided into twenty-four chapters \u2014 in addition to the biographies \u2014 based on\nevidence drawn from authentic documents.\nAnother of his great works concerning our Town is \u201cThe Basilian Monastery of San Pancrazio on the Rock of\nScilla\u201d.<br>\nIt is therefore thanks to him that the dormant memories of the greatness of Scilla and the worth of the people\nof Scilla have been revived, as well as the precise confirmation of the presence of the Monastery of the Eastern\nFathers on the Rock of Scilla.<br>\nGiovanni Minasi was born in Scilla on 27 December 1835 to Giacomo and Nicolina Colloridi. Initially educated\nat home under the guidance of a priest, he later attended the Jesuit college and the Seminary of Reggio Calabria,\nat a time when a true revival in studies and priestly vocations was taking place thanks to the learned and\nenergetic Monsignor Riccardi.<br>\nIn this fervent atmosphere of religiosity, the young Minasi also devoted himself to the priesthood, obtaining,\nupon completion of his training, ordination in Rome from his beloved Bishop, who in the meantime had been\nremoved from Reggio.<br>\nHe therefore remained in Rome, where he pursued intensive studies, before returning to his native town, where\nhe was appointed canon of the Collegiate Church of the Mother Church and later honorary canon of the Metropolitan\nCathedral of Reggio Calabria. However, the life of study and research, to which he felt deeply drawn,\nmade him realise that a small town far removed from the major cultural centres, such as ours, could not provide\nhim with the material necessary for his work.\nHe therefore decided to move to Naples, where he was hosted by the Jesuits, an order to which two of his\nbrothers, Pasquale and Antonio, belonged. He remained there until 1897, carrying out important research in\nthe historical archives and discovering very ancient documents concerning our Scilla.<br>\nHis activity began with a monograph on the Patron Saint of the town, Saint Roch, and then continued with studies\nof greater scope and historical significance.\nIn addition to the two works already mentioned, which are of particular interest to Scilla, during his stay in\nNaples Minasi wrote and published the following works:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><i>* Lo Speleota, or Saint Elias of Reggio Calabria, Basilian monk in the 9th and 10th centuries..<br>\n* Saint Nilus of Calabria, Basilian monk in the 10th century, with historical annotations..<br>\n* Churches of Calabria from the 5th to the 12th century. Historical notes..<br>\n* Cassiodorus Senator. Historical-critical research.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">These works earned him great admiration and numerous praises from learned and authoritative figures. <br>Among\nhis closest friends were the celebrated German man of letters and historian Ferdinand Gregorovius and distinguished\nlibrarians such as Don Giuseppe Cappaluzzi, a Basilian monk of the Vatican Library.<br>\nHe was even offered a lectureship in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Naples, but his modesty, equal\nto the profound expertise he had acquired in the field of historical and archaeological sciences, advised him to\ndecline the appointment.<br>\nHe soon left the Neapolitan city and returned to Scilla, to live peacefully in his home, surrounded by a garden\nfragrant with orange blossoms, from which one could enjoy a delightful spectacle offered by the natural and\nhistorical beauties of Scilla.<br>\nThere, making use of the rich material already collected, he continued his preferred studies.<br>\nFor eight years \u2014 from 1900 to 1908 \u2014 he collaborated with the Rivista Storica Calabrese and compiled other\nworks such as:<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><i>* Don Annibale d\u2019Afflitto, Palermitan patrician, Archbishop of Reggio Calabria.<br>\n* Monsignor Don Giovanni Andrea Monreale, Archbishop of Reggio Calabria. A biographical study.<br>\n* Don Domenico Garofalo, Governor of Calabria Ultra. Events and struggles.<br>\n* Father Antonio Minasi of Scilla of the Order of Preachers. A biographical-literary study.<br>\n* Life of Saint Nilus the Abbot translated into the vernacular by Don Antonio Rocchi, Basilian monk. Critical\nobservations.<br>\n* The Norman Abbey in Bagnara Calabra. Historical-critical notes.<br>\n* The alleged foundation of the ancient cities on the Mediterranean coast before the fifteenth century of the\nCommon Era. Dissertation.<br>\n* Colonel Francesco Carbone of Scilla. Biographical notes.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Our Canon, educated in the school of Monsignor Riccardi, never ceased to encourage his fellow citizens toward\ngoodness, urging them not to let their religious faith weaken, since the material and moral crisis affecting the\nsociety of the time was caused \u2014 in his view \u2014 by the lack of faith and by the fall of temporal power.<br>\nHonouring religion and the human sciences, he lived in Scilla until 8 February 1911, when he died.\nThree years earlier he had suffered serious damage as a result of the earthquake of 28 December 1908.<br>\nHe himself was caught in, though escaped unharmed from, the ruinous collapse of his house.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u00abI honourably conclude, as I hope, my historical and literary life, withdrawing from the undertaken arena because\nof the somewhat advanced age of seventy-five years, the loss of not a few manuscript notes, the fruit of\nmy previous studies, as well as of selected works that I had formerly collected\u00bb.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Thus the historian Minasi took leave of his studies, of mortal life, of the scholars who had been his friends and\nof his fellow citizens, to whom he left a fine legacy of exemplary memories, of moral imperatives, as well as the\nhope for a better future in faith and civil dignity.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Giuseppe Ribuffo<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1331.2px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div ><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-custom fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span\" style=\"--button_accent_color:#f20800;--button_border_color:#2038b2;--button_accent_hover_color:var(--awb-color1);--button_border_hover_color:var(--awb-color1);--button_gradient_top_color:var(--awb-color1);--button_gradient_bottom_color:var(--awb-color1);--button_gradient_top_color_hover:var(--awb-color4);--button_gradient_bottom_color_hover:var(--awb-color4);--button_text_transform:none;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverscilla.com\/en\/girolamo-marafioti-croniche-et-antichita-di-calabria\/\"><i class=\"fa-angle-double-right fas awb-button__icon awb-button__icon--default button-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Next page: 79. 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