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Lanza Del Vasto Lanza del Vasto, (Giuseppe Giovanni Luigi Enrico Lanza di Trabia), (September 29 1901 - January 5 1981) was a philosopher, poet, artist, 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. Youth in Italy Meeting Gandhi 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. He spent six months with the Mahatma, then in June 1937, went to the source of the Ganges river in the Himalayas, a famous pilgrimage site. There he saw a vision who told him "Go back and found!" He left then India and went back to Europe. In 1938, he went to Palestine, then in the midst of civil war, to Jerusalem and Bethlehem, "between two lines of tanks". He come back to Paris at the time when the Second World War started. He wrote some poetry books and in 1943 he published the story of his trip to India, Return to the Sources, which became a huge success. Foundation of the Ark He founded the Community of the Ark in 1948 which first met a lot of difficulties. In 1954, he went back to India to participate in non-violent struggles with Vinoba. In 1962, the Community of the Ark settled in Haut-Languedoc, in South of France, at the Borie Noble, near Lodve, in a deserted village. Nonviolent struggles In 1957, during the Algerian war of independence, del Vasto started with other known people (General of Bollardire, Franois Mauriac, Robert Barrat, etc.) a movement of protest against torture. He fasted for 21 days. In 1958, he demonstrated against the nuclear power plant in Marcoule,France, which produced plutonium for nuclear weapons. In 1963, he fasted for 40 days in Rome during the Second Vatican Council, asking the pope to stand against war - "Pour demander au pape de prendre position contre la guerre." In 1972, he supported the farmers of the Larzac plateau against the extension of a military camp while fasting for 15 days. In 1974 a community of the Ark settled in the Larzac in a farmhouse bought by the army. In 1976, he participated to the demonstrations against the building of a surgenerator at Creys-Malville, Isre (France). Bibliography Ballades aux Dames du temps prsent, Paris, 1923.
Conquiste du Vento, Florence, 1927.
Fantasia Notturna, thtre, Florence, 1927.
Judas, rcit biblique, Grasset, 1938, Gallimard, 1992.
Le Chiffre des Choses, posies, Robert Laffont, 1942.
Le Plerinage aux Sources, Denol, 1943, Gallimard, 1989, Le Rocher, 1993.
Dialogue de l'Amiti, avec Luc Dietrich (Laffont, 1942, 1993).
Choix, posies, Le Seuil, 1944.
'La Marche des Rois, thtre, R. Laffont, 1944.
Principes et prceptes du retour l'vidence, Denol, 1945, Le Rocher, 1996 sous le titre Eloge de la vie simple. La Baronne de Carins, bilingue, pome pique traduit du vieux sicilien, Le Seuil, 1946.
La Passion, thtre, Grasset, 1951.
Commentaire de l'Evangile, Denol, 1951, Le Rocher, 1994.
Histoire d'une amiti, dans L'Injuste Grandeur de Luc Dietrich, Denol, 1951, Le Rocher, 1993.
Vinoba, ou le nouveau plerinage, Denol, 1954, Gallimard, 1982.
Prfaces aux huit ouvrages de la collection Pense gandhienne, Denol, 1985-1965.
Les Quatre Flaux, philosophie, Denol, 1959, Le Rocher, 1993. Pacification en Algrie, ou mensonge et violence, dition clandestine, 1960, L'Harmattan, 1988.
Approches de la Vie Intrieure, Denol, 1962, Le Rocher, 1992.
No, thtre, Denol, 1965.
La Monte des mes vivantes, Denol, 1968.
L'Homme libre et les nes sauvages, Denol, 1969 et 1987.
La Trinit spirituelle, philosophie, Denol, 1971, Le Rocher, 1994.
Technique de la non-violence, Denol, 1971, Gallimard, 1988. L'Arche avait pour voilure une vigne, Denol, 1978, 1982. Etymologies imaginaires, Denol, 1985. David Berger, thtre, Lion de Judas, 1988.
Pour viter la fin du monde, Le Rocher, 1991.
Le Viatique, 2 tomes, Le Rocher, 1991.
Les Quatre Pilliers de la paix, Le Rocher, 1992.
Le Grand Retour, Le Rocher, 1993.
Pages d'enseignement, Le Rocher, 1993.
Essays on Lanza del Vasto Qui est Lanza del Vasto, par Jacques Madaule, Lanza del Vasto, par Arnaud de Mareuil (Seghers, 1965)
Dialogues avec Lanza del Vasto, par Ren Doumerc (Albin Michel)
Les Facettes de Cristal, entretiens avec Claude-Henri Roquet (Le Centurion)
Lanza del Vasto, sa vie, son œuvre, son message, par Arnaud de Mareuil (Dangles)
See also http://www.lanzadelvasto.org/.
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