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 Paganica is a hillside town in the province of L'Aquila, in the Abruzzo region of southern Italy. located at 669 meters above sea level, at the foot of the Gran Sasso d'Italia, about 7 kilometers east of the historic center, along the state road ...

, Volpe graduated in Letters at the

University of Pisa The University of Pisa ( it, Università di Pisa, UniPi), officially founded in 1343, is one of the oldest universities in Europe. History The Origins The University of Pisa was officially founded in 1343, although various scholars place ...

, 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 The ''Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere e Arti'' (Italian for "Italian Encyclopedia of Science, Letters, and Arts"), best known as ''Treccani'' for its developer Giovanni Treccani or ''Enciclopedia Italiana'', is an Italian-language en ...

, 2013. A nationalist, he supported the

Fascism Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultra-nationalist political ideology and movement,: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy an ...

and in 1924 was elected deputy with the

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.Eugenio Di Rienzo.
Volpe, Gioacchino
. ''Il Contributo italiano alla storia del Pensiero - Politica''.

, 2013. He was General Secretary of the

Royal Academy of Italy The Royal Academy of Italy ( it, Reale Accademia d'Italia, italic=no) was a short-lived Italian academy of the Fascist period. It was created on 7 January 1926 by royal decree,See reference . but was not inaugurated until 28 October 1929. It was e ...

from 1929 to 1934 and member of the

Accademia dei Lincei The Accademia dei Lincei (; literally the "Academy of the Lynx-Eyed", but anglicised as the Lincean Academy) is one of the oldest and most prestigious European scientific institutions, located at the Palazzo Corsini on the Via della Lungara in Rom ...

from 1935 to 1946.Eugenio Di Rienzo.
Volpe, Gioacchino
. ''Il Contributo italiano alla storia del Pensiero - Politica''.

, 2013. Between 1924 and 1940 he was professor of modern history at the University of Rome.Eugenio Di Rienzo.
Volpe, Gioacchino
. ''Il Contributo italiano alla storia del Pensiero - Politica''.

, 2013. In his works Volpe depicted the history of Italy as a rising process culminated in fascism.Eugenio Di Rienzo.
Volpe, Gioacchino
. ''Il Contributo italiano alla storia del Pensiero - Politica''.

, 2013. After the

Greco-Italian War The Greco-Italian War (Greek language, Greek: Ελληνοϊταλικός Πόλεμος, ''Ellinoïtalikós Pólemos''), also called the Italo-Greek War, Italian Campaign in Greece, and the War of '40 in Greece, took place between the kingdom ...

, his attitude towards fascism gradually became critical and distant.Eugenio Di Rienzo.
Volpe, Gioacchino
. ''Il Contributo italiano alla storia del Pensiero - Politica''.

, 2013. After the war, he was purged from the university teaching and focused on his studies.Eugenio Di Rienzo.
Volpe, Gioacchino
. ''Il Contributo italiano alla storia del Pensiero - Politica''.

, 2013.

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* 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 {{Italy-historian-stub

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