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Mauro Canali is a full professor of contemporary history at the
University of Camerino The University of Camerino ( it, Università degli Studi di Camerino) is a university located in Camerino, Italy. It is the best university of Italy among those with fewer than 10,000 students, according to the Guida Censis Repubblica 2011 and 201 ...
in Italy. He is considered to be one of the most important scholars of the events leading to the crisis of the liberal Italian state and the rise of
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. He has also researched and published extensively on the totalitarian structure of Mussolini's regime, its repressive mechanisms and its system of informants. He studied under
Renzo De Felice Renzo De Felice (8 April 1929 – 25 May 1996) was an Italian historian, who specialized in the Fascist era, writing, among other works, a 6000-page biography of Mussolini (4 volumes, 1965–1997). He argued that Mussolini was a revolutionary m ...
, and has published in the ''Journal of Modern Italian Studies'', the Italian dailies ''
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'' and ''Cronache di Liberal''.


Career

Canali has participated in conferences and held seminars at European and American universities including the
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,
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,
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,
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,
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and the
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. From October through December 2006 he was a visiting scholar at
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. He is frequently asked to contribute to and appear in history-related programs and documentaries on Italian TV such as "La Storia siamo noi", and is on the board of
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, the network's history channel. He consults for the program ''Res Gestae - persone, ricorrenze, eventi'' - an almanac of historical figures and events with a daily commentary called "100 seconds" that focuses on the most important historical events of the day.


L'informatore. Silone i comunisti e la polizia

His book, ''L'informatore. Silone i comunisti e la polizia'', (coauthored with
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), which bolstered the thesis of the collaboration between the well-known Abruzzi author
Ignazio Silone Secondino Tranquilli (1 May 1900 – 22 August 1978), known by the pseudonym Ignazio Silone (, ), was an Italian political leader, novelist, and short-story writer, world-famous during World War II for his powerful anti-fascist novels. He was no ...
and the Fascist political police during the 1920s, was the subject of much debate among historians in Italy and abroad. It was discussed in publications including ''
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'', ''
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'', and ''
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''.


Honors and awards

In 1998 Canali was awarded the Walter Tobagi Prize for his book ''Il delitto
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. Affarismo e politica nel primo governo Mussolini''. He was awarded the Bruno Buozzi Prize in 2005fondazione Bruno Buozzi
for: In 2010
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awarded him with the Premio Renato Benedetto Fabrizi. In 2014, Canali was awarded the Premio Internazionale Capalbio for his book ''Il tradimento. Gramsci Togliatti e la verità negata''. In 2017, he was awarded the Premio Fiuggi/Storia for his book ''La scoperta dell'Italia. Il fascismo raccontato dai corrispondenti americani''. He is now Advisor of the American Academy in Roma.


Publications

*''La prima trasvolata atlantica in solitaria'' - RCS MediaGroup Corriere della Sera - 2021 *''Dalle Alpi al Deserto Libico. I diari di Rodolfo Graziani 1940-1941'' - Nuova Argos - 2021. *''All Bliss in Fiume. L'opinione pubblica statunitense di fronte all'impresa'', in ''Fiume 1919-1920. Uno sguardo internazionale'', Memoria e Ricerca. Rivista di Storia Contemporanea, n.3, settembre-dicembre 2020, Bologna, Il Mulino. *''Il delitto Matteotti'', Milano, RCS - Corriere della Sera, 2020. *''La guerra di Etiopia e i corrispondenti di guerra americani'', in ''Correspondants de guerre 1918-1939 Maroc - Ethiopie - Espagne'', Presses Universitaires Savoie Mont Blanc Laboratoire LLSETI, 2020. *''Mussolini e i ladri di regime. Gli arricchimenti illeciti del fascismo'' (con Clemente Volpini) -
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- 2019 *''La scoperta dell'Italia. Il fascismo raccontato dai corrispondenti americani'' - Marsilio Editori - 2017 (Premio Fiuggi/Storia 2017) *''Il tradimento. Gramsci Togliatti e la verità negata'' - Marsilio Editori - 2013 (Premio Internazionale Capalbio 2014) *''Il revisionismo storico e il fascismo'', in ''Cercles. Revista de Historia Cultural'' - Publicacions i Edicions Universitat de Barcelona - 2011 *''Mussolini and His Myths'', in ''Sinnverlust und Sinnfindung am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts'' a.c. Karin Wolgast - Konigshausen & Neumann - 2011 *''Il problema dell'Altro nei regimi totalitari. Il caso del fascismo'', in ''Cittadinanza, identità e diritti'' a.c. Giulio M. Salerno e Francesco Rimoli - EUM - 2011 *''Crime and Repression'', in ''Oxford Handbook of Fascism'' a.c. Richard J. B. Bosworth -
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- 2009 *''Matteotti Murder and the Origins of Mussolini's Totalitarian Fascist Regime in Italy'', in ''Journal of Modern Italian Studies'' - 2009 vol. 14 *''Repressione e consenso nell'esperimento fascista'', in ''Modernità totalitaria. Il fascismo italiano'' a.c. di
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- Editori Laterza - 2008 *''Guidonia e il regime fascista. Una 'città nuova' dagli anni del consenso alla guerra (1935-1945)'', in ''Innamorarsi del futuro. Guidonia Montecelio 1937-2007'', Ancona, 2007. *''Mussolini e il petrolio iracheno. L'Italia, gli interessi petroliferi e le grandi potenze'' -
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- 2007 *''Il delitto
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'' - Il Mulino - 1997, 2004, 2015. *''Ignazio Silone and the Fascist political police'', in ''Journal of Modern Italian Studies'' - 2001 vol.5 *''Il caso Silone. Le prove del doppio gioco'' - I libri della Fondazione Liberal - 2000 *''Le spie del regime'' - Il Mulino - 2004 * (con
Dario Biocca Dario Biocca teaches European history at the University of Perugia, Italy and has been Coordinatore at Scuola di giornalismo Radiotelevisivo (Perugia). He has a Ph.D A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most com ...
), ''L' informatore: Silone, i comunisti e la polizia'' - Luni Editrice - 2000 *''Il dissidentismo fascista. Pisa e il caso Santini 1923-1925'' - Bonacci - 1983 *''Il delitto Matteotti. Affarismo e politica nel primo governo Mussolini'' - Il Mulino - 1997 *'' Cesare Rossi. Da rivoluzionario a eminenza grigia del fascismo'' - Il Mulino - 1991


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References


''Il sistema dei partiti in Italia – Il Sessantotto e le donne'' - prof. Mauro Canali conferenza presso Presidenza del Consiglio dei ministri dipartimento pari opportunita'
*Alain Charbonnier
Spie, delatori e polemiche
recensione su Gnosis, rivista del Sisde

Editoriale di Mauro Canali a Rai Storia

Intervista a Mauro Canali sugli sviluppi della ricerca storica

presentazione Palazzo delle Esposizioni di Mauro Canali del suo libro 'Il tradimento. Gramsci Togliatti e la verità negata'

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