Lorenzo Arnone Sipari (born 10 October 1973) is an Italian

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and

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, author of many studies on the

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and

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, especially on the origins and foundation of

Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park (Italian: ''Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise'') is an Italian national park established in 1923. The majority of the park is located in the Abruzzo region, with smaller parts in Lazio and Molise. It ...

Biography

He was born in

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. He graduated at

University of Cassino The University of Cassino and Southern Lazio ( it, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale) is an Italian public research university located in Cassino, Italy. It was established in 1979. Organization The University of Cassino ...

, with whom he published historical essays, particularly on the issues of the

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southern Italy Southern Italy ( it, Sud Italia or ) also known as ''Meridione'' or ''Mezzogiorno'' (), is a macroregion of the Italian Republic consisting of its southern half. The term ''Mezzogiorno'' today refers to regions that are associated with the peop ...

between the 19th and 20th centuries and on the birth and development of the

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Frosinone Frosinone (, local dialect: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, the administrative seat of the province of Frosinone. It is located about south-east of Rome close to the Rome-Naples A1 Motorway. The city is the main city of the Va ...

, Fiuggi and

Cassino Cassino () is a ''comune'' in the province of Frosinone, Southern Italy, at the southern end of the region of Lazio, the last city of the Latin Valley. Cassino is located at the foot of Monte Cairo near the confluence of the Gari and Liri rive ...

. Since 1998 he conducts historical research on the

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in Italy, publishing essays on the

. On this issue, in 2011 he brought together in a volume the main articles, reports and letters of Erminio Sipari,

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of the

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and also founder and first president of the first Italian Park. In 2007 he discovered that Giovanni Paolo Mattia Castrucci, a 17th-century historian of the

duchy of Alvito The Duchy of Alvito was a fiefdom of the Kingdom of Naples, in southern Italy. Rule of the Cantelmo The Cantelmo family, of French origins, arrived in Italy in the 13th century around the time the Angevins conquered Naples (1266). From the An ...

author of the book "Descrittione del ducato di Alvito" (1633), reprinted several times, was a

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. An important part of his research has been devoted to the life and work of

Benedetto Croce Benedetto Croce (; 25 February 1866 – 20 November 1952) was an Italian idealist philosopher, historian, and politician, who wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy, history, historiography and aesthetics. In most regards, Croce was a lib ...

, with particular reference to its background and to its

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ology. He's the conservator of the Sipari family

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(in Alvito), which was declared of significant historical importance by Italian state.

Main Works

Social history

*''Famiglia, patrimonio, potere locale: i Sipari in Terra di Lavoro nella seconda metà dell'Ottocento'', in S. Casmirri (ed.), ''Le élites italiane prima e dopo l'unità: formazione e vita civile'',

Minturno Minturno is a city and ''comune'' in the southern Lazio, Italy, situated on the north west bank of the Garigliano (known in antiquity as the Liris), with a suburb on the opposite bank about from its mouth, at the point where the Via Appia crosse ...

2000: 216-265. *''L'archivio e la biblioteca della Società operaia di mutuo soccorso di Sora'', ed. by L. Alonzi,

Soveria Mannelli Soveria Mannelli ( scn, Suverìa Mannielli) is a town and '' comune'' in the province of Catanzaro, in the Calabria region of southern Italy. The town is bordered by Bianchi, Carlopoli, Colosimi, Decollatura, Gimigliano Gimigliano ( Calabri ...

2001. *''Élite locale e infrastrutture: il caso della ferrovia Cassino-Atina-Sora, 1883-1914'', in S. Casmirri (ed.), ''Lo stato in periferia: Élites, istituzioni e poteri locali nel Lazio meridionale tra Ottocento e Novecento'', Università di Cassino 2003: 111-164. *''Spirito rotariano e impegno associativo nel Lazio meridionale: i Rotary Club di Frosinone, Cassino e Fiuggi, 1959-2005'', Universita di Cassino 2005. *''Élites locali di Terra di Lavoro in età liberale: l'opera di Vincenzo Mazzenga'', "Annale di storia regionale", 2006, nr. 1: 111-140.

Nature conservation

*''Dalla riserva reale dell'Alta Val di Sangro alla costituzione del Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo'', "La lunga guerra per il Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo,

Lanciano Lanciano (; nap, label= Abruzzese, Langiàne ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Chieti, part of the Abruzzo region of central Italy. It has 36,304 inhabitants as of 2011. The town is known for the first recorded Catholic Eucharistic ...

1998: 49-66. *''In difesa del nome Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo'', "Rivista Abruzzese", 2001, nr. 3: 251-253. *''Verso l'oro verde. La costruzione del turismo nel parco nazionale d'Abruzzo 1948-1973'', "Adriatico", 2003, nr. 3: 39-47. *''"Il Parco nazionale d'Abruzzo liberato dall'allagamento": un conflitto tra tutela ambientale e sviluppo industriale durante il fascismo'', "Rivista della Scuola Superiore dell'Economia e delle Finanze", 2004, nr. 8-9: 27-39
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. *''Scritti scelti di Erminio Sipari sul Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo (1922-1933)'',

Trento Trento ( or ; Ladin and lmo, Trent; german: Trient ; cim, Tria; , ), also anglicized as Trent, is a city on the Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th centu ...

2011; *''The Notables of the Upper Val di Sangro and Their Role in the Genesis of the National Park'', "Ninety Years of the Abruzzo National Park 1922-2012: Proceedings of the Conference held in Pescasseroli, May 18–20, 2012",

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, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013: 5-9
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About Croce

*''Benedetto Croce e la monografia di Pescasseroli dall'Archivio Sipari di Alvito'', "Rivista Abruzese", 1998, nr. 4: 309-314. *''Croce tra noi'', Due giornate di studio (Pescasseroli - Università di Cassino 3-4 giugno 2002),

Atripalda Atripalda is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Avellino, Campania, southern Italy. History The town is the home of the ruins of ''Abellinum'', the Ancient Roman Avellino. A large than life-size Roman marble statue of a veiled priestess ...

2003. *''Gli inediti di Benedetto Croce nell'Archivio Sipari di Alvito'', "L'Acropoli", 2004, nr. 3: 309-319. *''Il brigantaggio meridionale nell'opera di Benedetto Croce tra le due guerre'', in R. Colapietra (ed.), ''Benedetto Croce ed il Brigantaggio meridionale: un difficile rapporto'',

L'Aquila L'Aquila ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in central Italy. It is the capital city of both the Abruzzo region and of the Province of L'Aquila. , it has a population of 70,967 inhabitants. Laid out within medieval walls on a hill in the wide valle ...

2005: 73-85. *''La storia «civile» in rapporto alla conservazione della natura. Il dibattito Croce-Parpagliolo sulla legge per le bellezze naturali del 1922'', "Diacritica", 2017, nr. 1: 15-35
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.

References

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