Luigi Firpo (4 January 1915 in
Turin
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– 2 March 1989 in Turin)
profile of Luigi Firpo
/ref> was an Italian historian and politician.
He taught history of political thought at the University of Turin
The University of Turin (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the oldest universities in Europe and continues to play an impo ...
. He has been credited as "an excellent editor and lucky finder of texts" which were particularly influential in the study of Tommaso Campanella
Tommaso Campanella (; 5 September 1568 – 21 May 1639), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet.
He was prosecuted by the Roman Inquisition for heresy in 1594 and w ...
.Trento
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's Civic Library a 1602 manuscript of Campanella's ''The City of the Sun'' (shelf mark BCT1-1538), which is considered the most ancient manuscript copy that has survived to present time.
Firpo was a member of the Italian Republican Party
The Italian Republican Party ( it, Partito Repubblicano Italiano, PRI) is a liberal and social-liberal political party in Italy. Founded in 1895, the PRI is the oldest political party still active in Italy.
The PRI has old roots and a long histo ...
and of the Italian Parliament serving from 9 July 1987 to March 2, 1989.
Bibliography
* ''Ricerche campanelliane'', Firenze, Sansoni, 1947.
* ''Il processo di Giordano Bruno'', Napoli, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1949.
* ''Lo stato ideale della Controriforma'', Bari, Laterza, 1957.
* ''Gli scritti giovanili di Giovanni Botero: bibliografia ragionata'', Firenze, Sansoni antiquariato, 1960.
* ''Appunti e testi per la storia dell'antimachiavellismo : corso di storia delle dottrine politiche'', Torino, Cooperativa libraria universitaria torinese, 1961.
* ''Rousseau in Italia'', Torino, Edizioni di "Filosofia", 1963.
* ''L'iconografia di Tommaso Campanella'', Firenze, Sansoni antiquariato, 1964.
* ''Bridge : il sistema "Torino" : dichiarazioni, giocata, percentuali'', Torino, Associazione di Torino della Federazione italiana bridge, 1965.
* ''Invito al bridge : storia, regole, dichiarazione, giocata'', Milano, Mursia, 1967.
* ''Girolamo Angeriano'', Napoli, Libreria scientifica editrice, 1973.
* ''Vita di Giuseppe Pomba da Torino : libraio, tipografo, editore'', Torino, UTET Unione tipografico-editrice torinese, 1975.
* ''Il concetto del lavoro ieri, oggi, domani'', Torino, Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, 1977.
* ''Cattivi pensieri'', Milano, A. Mondadori, 1983.
* ''Gente di Piemonte'', Milano, Mursia, 1983.
* ''Il supplizio di Tommaso Campanella : narrazioni, documenti, verbali delle torture'', Roma - Salerno, stampa 1985. .
* ''Questioni di sociologia del lavoro'', ''(L. Firpo et al.)'', Torino, Cooperativa di cultura Lorenzo Milani, 1989.
* ''Ritratti di antenati'', Torino, La stampa, 1989. .
* ''L'utopismo del Rinascimento e l'età nuova'', Tre edizioni in tiratura limitata, Alpignano, Tallone, 1990.
* ''Scritti sulla Riforma in Italia'', Napoli, Prismi, 1996. .
* ''Scritti sul pensiero politico del Rinascimento e della Controriforma'', Torino, UTET Libreria, 2005. .
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1915 births
1989 deaths
20th-century Italian historians
Historians of Italy
Politicians from Turin