Gaetano Salvemini (1873–1957)
Author of The French Revolution, 1788-1792
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Works by Gaetano Salvemini
Il ministro della mala vita: notizie e documenti sulle elezioni giolittiane nell'Italia meridionale (2000) 3 copies
Lettere dall'America, 1947-1949 3 copies
Mussolini's fascisme 2 copies
La dignità cavalleresca nel commune di Firenze e altri scritti — Author — 2 copies
Scritti sul fascismo 2 copies
Dalla guerra mondiale alla dittatura 2 copies
La rivoluzione del ricco 1 copy
Italian Fascism 1 copy
Scritti sul Risorgimento 1 copy
Che cosa è la coltura? 1 copy
Il ministro della mala vita 1 copy
Carteggi 1. : 1895-1911 1 copy
L' Italia clericale 1 copy
Storia e scienza 1 copy
℗Il ℗ministro della mala vita: notizie e documenti sulle elezioni giolittiane nel'Italia meridionale 1 copy
Vent' anni fra le due guerre 1 copy
Stato e chiesa in Italia 1 copy
HLe Imemorie di un candidato 1 copy
6. 3 : Scritti sul fascismo 1 copy
5. : Scritti sulla scuola 1 copy
Opere 1 copy
6. 2 : Scritti sul fascismo 1 copy
[1]: 1944-1946 1 copy
Un ponte sulla palude 1 copy
Italia scombinata 1 copy
La sorte dell'Italia 1 copy
Delenda Austria 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1873-09-08
- Date of death
- 1957-09-06
- Burial location
- Cimitero di Trespiano, Firenze
- Nationality
- Italy
- Birthplace
- Molfetta, Italy
- Place of death
- Sorrento, Italy
- Education
- Università di Firenze
- Occupations
- historian
politician
professor
intellectual - Relationships
- Rossi, Ernesto (student)
- Organizations
- Harvard University
Università di Firenze
Giustizia e Libertà - Awards and honors
- Premio Feltrinelli (1960)
- Short biography
- Gaetano Salvemini was born in Molfetta, in the Apulia region of southern Italy, to an impoverished family with left-wing politics that shaped his own political and social ideals. He won a scholarship to attend the University of Florence, where he eventually earned a PhD and met his first wife Maria Minervini. In 1899, he published his first book, Magnati e popolani nelle commune di Firenze 1280-1295, now considered a classic that introduced economic and social analysis into Italian historiography. He was appointed professor in medieval and modern history at the University of Messina in 1901. He worked to promote universal suffrage and universal education, and wrote La Rivoluzione francese (The French Revolution, 1905) and the first major analysis of the ideas of Mazzini (1905). The 1908 Messina earthquake killed his wife, their children and his sister before his eyes in their home. He went on to teach history at the University of Pisa and the University of Florence. He founded a new socialist journal, L'unita. In 1919, he was elected to Parliament but in 1921, after the Fascist regime came to power in Italy, he withdrew from politics.
In 1925, he was arrested for secret anti-Fascist activities, but managed to flee the country. In exile, he helped establish a new international anti-Fascist organization called Giustizia e Libertà. In 1933, he emigrated to the USA and was awarded a chair in Italian history and culture at Harvard, where he taught until in 1948. Prior to World War II, he worked to awaken the people of the USA and UK to the dangers of fascism. In 1948, Salvemini retired to Italy, where he continued to participate in Italian culture and politics and maintain contact with American friends and policymakers whose attitudes he helped to shape, such as H. Stuart Hughes, Ruth Draper, Water Lippmann, Felix Frankfurter, and Arthur Schlessinger, Sr. He contributed articles to publications such as Il Ponte, Critica Sociale, and Il Mondo into his 80s.
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- Works
- 78
- Members
- 260
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- Rating
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- ISBNs
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- Languages
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