Post by account_disabled on Feb 20, 2024 0:51:31 GMT -5
You had among your teachers Renzo de Felice a historian of enormous relevance who developed one of the most important biographies of Mussolini that have been written to date. How did you meet De Felice and what did you learn from him in terms of historiographical work Let me tell you that as a child I had two great passions. One was the painting and the other was the story. Then due to a series of circumstances I was not allowed to follow the vocation that I most appreciated which was painting so I dedicated myself to my other field of interest.
My first attempts were in medieval history and when I was and finishing Russia Mobile Number List school I did an essay on Dantes poetry. However the work was rejected by the person who was then my professor. nto that text I had dedicated a lot of work and I thought I could ask for another opinion on that essay . Then it occurred to me to write to Giuseppe Prezzolini a writer and journalist who wrote for Il Tempo the newspaper my father read. Prezzolini was a very famous man who among other things had been the founder of a magazine La Voce in which Giovanni Amendola Benedetto Croce and Mussolini had collaborated. When I wrote to him I was completely unaware that he was years old and in my letter I addressed him as you as if he were a friend.
He answered me very kindly that because of the culture that my article expressed he did not believe that I was years old. And so a relationship began. Then already completing my university studies in History I met an antifascist historian who had been a friend of Piero Gobetti and who had a great influence on me. I am referring to the great historian Nino Valeri who was the first to study fascism scientifically. I was fascinated because Valeri talked about the Giolitti period and the protesters of that time among whom was a young intellectual who was Prezzolini himself. The truth is that Valeri became the director of my thesis but he retired from the academy before I finished it. My director then became Ruggero Moscati but he nevertheless needed a codirector. And it was Prezzolini who told me Look in Rome there is a historian that I admire a lot.