Born in
Lucca, Ragghianti studied in
Pisa, where he was a pupil of
Matteo Marangoni. 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, and
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 the 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 undersecretary of the arts and entertainment in the Parri cabinet. He was a founding member of the Italian committee Comitato del Fondo Internazionale per Firenze'' after the
1966 Florence flood. ==References==