Santo Mazzarino (27 January 1916 – 18 May 1987) was an Italian historian considered to be a leading 20th-century historian of

ancient Rome In modern historiography, ancient Rome refers to Roman civilisation from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 B ...

. He was a member of the

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. Mazzarino was born in

Catania Catania (, , Sicilian and ) is the second largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo. Despite its reputation as the second city of the island, Catania is the largest Sicilian conurbation, among the largest in Italy, as evidenced also by ...

. As a scholar and faculty member of the

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and

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, Mazzarino was viewed as one of Italy's leading historians. His influential book ''La fine del mondo antico'' (1959) examined the death of Rome as a result of decadence. The book was widely read among non-specialists as well and has been translated into several languages. Mazzarino's primary historical contributions covered subjects such as the 4th-century economy, classical

historiography Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians ha ...

, and various aspects of the

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. As a

Marxist Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...

, he blamed the same decadence for the woes of the modern world. As of 2007, his main and fundamental works are being newly issued by Bollati Boringhieri, a renowned Italian scientific publisher in

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Bibliography

* '' Stilicone: La Crisi Imperiale dopo Teodosio'' (1942) * ''Dalla

monarchia ''Monarchia'', often called ''De Monarchia'' (, ; "(On) Monarchy"), is a Latin treatise on secular and religious power by Dante Alighieri, who wrote it between 1312 and 1313. With this text, the poet intervened in one of the most controversial s ...

allo Stato repubblicano. Ricerche di storia romana arcaica'' (1945) * ''Fra Oriente e Occidente. Ricerche di storia greca arcaica'' (1947) * '' Aspetti sociali del IV secolo: ricerche di storia tardo-romana''. L'Erma di Bretschneider, Roma, (1951) * ''L' impero romano'' (1956) * ''Introduzione alle guerre puniche'' (2003) * ''La fine del mondo antico. Le cause della caduta dell'impero romano'' (1959; English translation by George Holmes as ''The end of the ancient world'') * ''Il pensiero storico classico'' (3 voll., 1965–66) * ''Il basso impero. Antico, tardoantico ed era costantiniana'' (2 volumes, 1974-1980) * ''Storia sociale del Vescovo Ambrogio'' (1989) * ''Trattato di storia romana'' (1962, with Giulio Giannelli) * '' Vico, l'annalistica e il diritto'' (1971) * ''Storia romana e storiografia moderna'' (1954) * '' Serena e le

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Eudossie'' (1946)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mazzarino, Santo 1916 births 1987 deaths Writers from Catania Italian classical scholars Italian Marxist historians Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome 20th-century Italian historians

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