Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
September 29, 1901
Died
January 5, 1981
Age
79
Place of Birth
San Vito dei Normanni, Brindisi, Italy
Popularity
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Lanza Del Vasto
Acting
Biography
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 I…
Also known as
Joseph Lanza Del Vasto
