Pietro Scoppola (December 14, 1926 – October 25, 2007) was an Italian

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

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, and

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Biography

He taught at

University of Rome La Sapienza The Sapienza University of Rome ( it, Sapienza – Università di Roma), also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rome, and formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a public research university located in Rome, Ita ...

and was senator for Christian Democracy from 1983 to 1987. He was also a

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who examined the church's relationship with the rise of fascism in Italy.

Works

* ''Dal neoguelfismo alla Democrazia cristiana'', Studium, 1957 * ''Crisi modernista e rinnovamento cattolico in Italia'', Il Mulino, 1961 * ''Chiesa e Stato nella storia d'Italia'', Laterza, 1967 * ''La Chiesa e il fascismo'', Laterza, 1971 * ''La proposta politica di De Gasperi'', Il Mulino, 1977 * ''La "nuova cristianità" perduta'', Studium, 1985 * ''25 aprile. Liberazione'', Einaudi 1995 * ''La Repubblica dei partiti. Evoluzione e crisi di un sistema politico'', Il Mulino, 1997 * ''La Costituzione contesa'', Einaudi, 1998 * ''La democrazia dei cristiani'', Il Mulino, 2005

References

Enciclopedia Multimediale delle Scienze Filosofiche biography

Rai Educational biography

External links

20th-century Italian historians 2007 deaths 1926 births Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome Senators of Legislature IX of Italy {{Italy-historian-stub