A very interesting exhibition on one of the most eminent but also the most controversial figures in the political, cultural and social history of our city was inaugurated on 12 February at the Pepoli Museum in Trapani, namely Nunzio Nasi, deputy and several times minister of the Kingdom of ´Italy.
Nunzio Nasi also held numerous positions at the city level, distinguishing himself as an eclectic man with a troubled political history as an exponent of the Italian social democratic party at the time of the first peasant struggles in Sicily in the early twentieth century.
He was a minister several times and as we said at the beginning he was a very controversial figure because he joined Freemasonry in 1892, becoming a venerable Master in the Masonic lodge in Rome in 1900.
His rise to the top of Freemasonry was so sudden that from 1900 to 1902 he was president of the Grand Lodge of the Italian Symbolic Rite.
He was a man persecuted not only by politics, but also by justice, because in 1904 he was accused of embezzlement in the context of his multiple ministerial functions and also of embezzlement to the detriment of the state; he would practically have subtracted from his offices stationery material and the like: today it would seem nonsense in the face of the great corruption of today´s politicians, but those times certain behaviors were severely punished; in fact, his arrest was requested, but in order to escape the arrest warrant issued by the judiciary, he preferred to flee to France and then to London. He was also expelled from the Masonic lodges to which he belonged.
Nasi remained a fugitive until 1907, when he returned to Italy to submit to the judgment of the High Court of the Senate of the Kingdom, which sentenced him to 11 months in prison, plus the accessory penalty of disqualification from public office.
Despite the numerous problems with justice, his figure as a politician and statesman did not remain scratched in the eyes of his Trapani voters, who indeed considered him a real charismatic leader unjustly persecuted, which is why the people of Trapani continued to elect him to Parliament. elections repeatedly canceled by the junta of the House because it was considered unworthy.
Nasi returned to practice as a lawyer and university teacher, but the sirens of politics continued to call him back and so he was re-elected to the Chamber, where on November 16, 1922 he gave a passionate speech against the fascist regime, which cost him a lot. dear, was declared lapsed in 1926 by Mussolini, together with other anti-fascist deputies.
Well, the exhibition at the Pepoli museum reconstructs his troubled political and human history until May 15 through a rich documentary testimony.
(Texts Giuseppe Puglia)
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