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 .
[Eugenio Di Rienzo.]
Volpe, Gioacchino
. ''Il Contributo italiano alla storia del Pensiero - Politica''. Treccani, 2013. A nationalist, he supported the
Fascism
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and in 1924 was elected deputy with the
National List.
[ 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.][ Between 1924 and 1940 he was professor of modern history at the University of Rome.][
In his works Volpe depicted the history of Italy as a rising process culminated in fascism.][ After the Greco-Italian War, his attitude towards fascism gradually became critical and distant.][ After the war, he was purged from the university teaching and focused on his studies.][
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Further reading
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* L. Grilli, ''Gioacchino Volpe nello specchio del suo Archivio''. III. ''Di una ribadita coerenza storiografica. Il Professor Volpe alla Università “Pro Deo” di Padre Félix Morlion'', Bologna 2020. .
* L. Grilli, ''Gioacchino Volpe nello specchio del suo Archivio''. IV. ''Per il secondo volume di “Nel Regno di Clio”'', Bologna 2023.
* V. Faustinella, L. Grilli, ''La storia sottratta. La Grande Guerra e l’Ufficio Storiografico della Mobilitazione Industriale nell’Archivio Gioacchino Volpe e nelle Carte Umberto Massimo Miozzi'', Edizioni Joker, Novi Ligure 2024. .
References
External links
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* E. Di Rienzo, ''La storia e l'azione. Vita politica di Gioacchino Volpe'', Firenze, Le Lettere, 2008, in https://www.academia.edu/18819941/E_DI_RIENZO_La_storia_e_l_azione_Vita_politica_di_Gioacchino_Volpe_Firenze_Le_Lettere_2008_p_429
* Enrico Artifoni, ''Gioacchino Volpe'', in ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'', 100 (2020), https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/gioacchino-volpe_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/
* L. Grilli, ''Gioacchino Volpe nello specchio del suo Archivio'', in four volumes, Bologna 2019-2020; 2023. 1. ''Qualcosa se ne salvò. I. La tesi di laurea e le lezioni su Bonifacio 8.'', 2019 / 2. ''Qualcosa se ne salvò. II. L’“opera … che non è stata mai scritta” e le lezioni di storiografia'', 2020 / 3. ''Di una ribadita coerenza storiografica. Il Professor Volpe alla Università “Pro Deo” di Padre Félix A. Morlion'', 2020. / 4. ''Per il secondo volume di NEL REGNO DI CLIO'', 2023.
1876 births
1971 deaths
People from the Province of L'Aquila
20th-century Italian historians
Italian fascists
University of Pisa alumni
Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome
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