Federico Chabod or Frédéric Chabod ( - February 23, 1901 – July 14, 1960) was an Italian historian and politician.
Biography
Born in
Aosta
Aosta (, , ; french: Aoste , formerly ; frp, Aoûta , ''Veulla'' or ''Ouhta'' ; lat, Augusta Praetoria Salassorum; wae, Augschtal; pms, Osta) is the principal city of Aosta Valley, a bilingual region in the Italian Alps, north-northwest of ...
from notary Laurent from
Valsavarenche
Valsavarenche (local Valdôtain: ; known as ''Valsavara'' under fascist rule from 1939 to 1946, and as ''Valsavaranche'' from 1946 to 1976) is a ''comune'' in the Aosta Valley, northern Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian R ...
and Giuseppina Baratino from
Ivrea
Ivrea (; pms, Ivrèja ; ; lat, Eporedia) is a town and ''comune'' of the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy. Situated on the road leading to the Aosta Valley (part of the medieval Via Francigena), it strad ...
, he studied at the
University of Turin
The University of Turin (Italian language, Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public university, public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont (Italy), Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the List ...
under
Pietro Egidi and
Gaetano Salvemini
Gaetano Salvemini (; 8 September 1873 – 6 September 1957) was an Italian Socialist and antifascist politician, historian and writer. Born in a family of modest means, he became an acclaimed historian both in Italy and abroad, particularly in ...
, writing his thesis on
Machiavelli. His thesis was published with the title of ''Introduzione al Principe'' in 1924. After graduating from the University of Turin, he continued his studies, this time at the
University of Berlin
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under
Friedrich Meinecke
Friedrich Meinecke (October 20, 1862 – February 6, 1954) was a German historian, with national liberal and anti-Semitic views, who supported the Nazi invasion of Poland. After World War II, as a representative of an older tradition, he criti ...
. He began his academic career at the
University of Perugia
University of Perugia (Italian ''Università degli Studi di Perugia'') is a public-owned university based in Perugia, Italy. It was founded in 1308, as attested by the Bull issued by Pope Clement V certifying the birth of the Studium Generale.
Th ...
and the
University of Milan
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. In 1946, he was hired by the
University of Rome to head the
Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici founded by
Benedetto Croce. He is best known for expanding Italian historiography from its traditional insularity by linking it in a broader, European context.
Chabod died at Rome in 1960.
Works
* ''L'Italia contemporanea''
* ''L'Historiographie de l'Italie contemporaine''
* ''De Machiavel à Benedetto Croce: études présentées''
* ''Histoire de l'idée d'Europe''
* ''Storia della politica estera italiana dal 1870 al 1896'', 1951. English trans. 1996.
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* ''Lezioni di metodo storico''
* ''Scritti su Machiavelli''
* ''Scritti sul Rinascimento''
* ''Il ducato di Milano e l'impero di Carlo V''
* ''Lo Stato e la vita religiosa a Milano nell'epoca di Carlo V''
* ''Storia di Milano nell'epoca di Carlo V''
* ''Carlo V e il suo impero''
* ''Storia dell'idea d'Europa''
* ''Idea di Europa e politica dell'equilibro''
* ''L'idea di nazione''
References
External links
Conseil de la Vallée (Aosta Valley Regional Council)
(in French and Italian)
Further reading
* Boyd, Kelly, ed. ''Encyclopedia of historians and historical writing. Vol. 1'' (Taylor & Francis, 1999) pp 192–94.
* Braudel, Fernand. "Federico Chabod (1901-1960)." ''Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales'' 16#1 (1961). pp 1–2.
* Vigezzi, Brunello ed. ''Federico. Chabod e la Nuova Storiografia italiana dal primo al secondo dopoguerra, 1919–1950.'' (Edizioni Universitarie Jaca, 1983). Pp. xxiii, 719.
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1901 births
1960 deaths
Presidents of Aosta Valley
People from Aosta
20th-century Italian historians
University of Turin alumni
Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy