Renato Del Ponte (1944 โ€“ 2023)

Prof. Renato Del Ponte, director of the magazine ยซArthosยป, which he founded in 1972 and with which we have the honor of collaborating, left us yesterday.

LIKE a bolt from the blue the news reaches me of the sudden passing of Prof. Renato Del Ponte, cultural animator of the Arya publishing house and director of the journal of traditional studies ยซArthosยป, which he founded in 1972, for which I had the honor to collaborate in recent years (with two short essays published in albums nos. 29 e 30 of the new series, and with an excerpt from โ€œThe Angel of the Abyssโ€ published in the n. 31, forthcoming).

PUR in the natural discouragement in learning the sad news, for the undersigned it can only be an undoubted source of pride to have aroused, in these years of studies and publications, the editorial interest of a scholar like Prof. Del Ponte, among the most important in post-war Italy with regard to traditional Italic, Roman and Indo-European studies in general.

IN the list of his works should be remembered as milestones โ€œItalic gods and myths. Archetypes and forms of Roman-Italic sacrednessโ€ (1985, revised and expanded in 2020), โ€œLa Religione dei Romaniโ€ (1992, rev. and amp. in 2017), โ€œI Liguri. Ethnogenesis of a Peopleโ€ (1999, rev. & amp. in 2019). The most recent โ€œThe Great Middle Agesโ€ (2021) and โ€œRoma Amor. Rome and its sacredness โ€(2022) demonstrate, if there were any need, that his passionate study and his professionalism have not been in the least affected by Crono's scythe.

BORN into this world on the day of the Winter Solstice of 1944, Prof. Del Ponte ascends to the Celestial Realms in the None of February, the day in which the ancient Romans celebrated the assumption of the title of Pater Patriae by Augustus, in the Temple of Concordia in Arce.

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RENATO DEL PONTE

(Dec. 21, 1944 โ€“ Feb. 5, 2023)

Cecini pascua, rura, duces

("I sang the pastures, the countryside, the leaders")

In the following photos the two albums of ยซArthosยป containing my contributions and the one, more 'vintage', on the Arctic Tradition, essential reading for the drafting of "The Angel of the Abyss".

A comment on "Renato Del Ponte (1944 โ€“ 2023)"

  1. Als langjรคhriger Abonnent von 'ARTHOS' und Brieffreund von Prof. Del Ponte, der ich einmal auch die Freude hatte, ihn in Verona zusammen mit seiner Gemahlin persรถnlich zu treffen, bedaure ich lebhaft dessen Tod. Leider konnte ich ihn nicht von der Coronaimpfung abhalten!

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