Born in Lucca , Ragghianti studied in Pisa , where he was a pupil of . His education was influenced by Benedetto Croce and by his theory of " pure visibility " ; then he approached and deepened the theories of Konrad Fiedler , Alois Riegl , Julius von Schlosser . He started his career as a scholar in 1933 with essays on the Carracci and Giorgio Vasari ; later he wrote on cinema and entertainment industry as expressions of visual art , thus demonstrating his interest in all manifestations of the visual language . In 1935 he founded together with Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli the magazine '' Critica d'arte '' . Ragghianti was among the founders of the Action Party and after September 8 , 1943 he organized armed resistance in Tuscany . He was president of the Tuscan National Liberation Committee and headed the liberation of Florence on November 8 , 1944 . Ragghianti was undersecretary to the arts and entertainment in the Parri cabinet . From 1952 to 1965 , along with his wife Licia Collobi , he directed the art magazine '' SeleArte '' . He was a member of the jury at the 16th Venice International Film Festival
16th Venice International Film Festival
16th Venice International Film Festival
Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti