Mario Pilo
Mario Pilo (24 January 1859 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian psychologist, philosopher of art and professor.
Biography
He was born in Pallanza, a district of the Italian comune of Verbania. Pilo taught in many Italian high schools in Taranto, Chieti, Belluno, Sessa Aurunca and Rovigo, ending his teaching career at the Liceo Classico Virgilio in Mantua where he arrived in 1913. He died in the same city in January 1920.
Also at the University of Bologna, he lectured as privatdozent of aesthetics from 1900 to 1902. Pilo collaborated with various magazines including Idea liberale, Rivista di Filosofia scientifica, Critica sociale, Nuova Antologia, and Pensiero italiano.
Mario Pilo married Giuseppina Levi (1865–1936), better known under the pseudonym of Ginevra Speraz, daughter of the writer Beatrice Speraz, known under the pseudonym of Bruno Sperani. From 1920 to 1936, his widow donated documentary material and books that constitute the Mario Pilo Fund at the Biblioteca Teresiana of Mantua.
Works
- L'analisi estetica. Saggi sulla psicologia del bello (1890)
- Le gerarchie estetiche (1891)
- Classificazione naturale dei fenomeni psichici (1892)
- L'estetica psicologica e la fisiologia del bello di Paolo Mantegazza (1892)
- Nuovi dati sull'estetica del fanciullo (1894)
- L'estetica naturalistica francese Eugène Veron (1895)
- Psicologia musicale (1903)
