Gioacchino Volpe
Gioacchino Volpe | |
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Born | 16 February 1876 Paganica, Italy |
Died | 1 October 1971 Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy | (aged 95)
Occupation | Historian Politician |
Gioacchino Volpe (16 February 1876 – 1 October 1971) was an Italian historian and, during the years between the two world wars, a politician.
Biography[]
Born in Paganica, Volpe graduated in Letters at the University of Pisa, and in 1906 he became professor of modern history at the .[1] A nationalist, he supported the Fascism and in 1924 was elected deputy with the National List.[1] He was General Secretary of the Royal Academy of Italy from 1929 to 1934 and member of the Accademia dei Lincei from 1935 to 1946.[1] Between 1924 and 1940 he was professor of modern history at the University of Rome.[1]
In his works Volpe depicted the history of Italy as a rising process culminated in fascism.[1] After the Greco-Italian War, his attitude towards fascism gradually became critical and distant.[1] After the war, he was purged from the university teaching and focused on his studies.[1]
Further reading[]
- Innocenzo Cervelli. Gli Storici: Gioacchino Volpe. Guida, 2008. ISBN 8860425751.
- Paola Cavina, Lorenzo Grilli. Gaetano Salvemini e Gioacchino Volpe: dalla storia medievale alla storia contemporanea. Edizioni della Normale, 2008. ISBN 8876422188.
- Eugenio Di Rienzo. La storia e l'azione: vita politica di Gioacchino Volpe. Le Lettere, 2008. ISBN 8860871069.
- Roberto Bonuglia. Gioacchino Volpe tra passato e presente. Aracne, 2007. ISBN 8854814121.
- Lorenzo Grilli. Gioacchino Volpe nello specchio del suo Archivio. I. Qualcosa se ne salvò. La tesi di laurea e le lezioni su Bonifacio VIII. 2020. ISBN 9791220050807.
- Lorenzo Grilli. Gioacchino Volpe nello specchio del suo Archivio. II. Qualcosa se ne salvò. L'«opera ... che non è stata mai scritta» e le lezioni di storiografia. 2020. ISBN 9791220052030.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Eugenio Di Rienzo. "Volpe, Gioacchino". Il Contributo italiano alla storia del Pensiero - Politica. Treccani, 2013.
External links[]
- 1876 births
- 1971 deaths
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- Italian historians
- 20th-century historians
- Italian fascists
- University of Pisa alumni
- Sapienza University of Rome faculty
- Italian historian stubs