Italy
CAPPELLINI, Paolo
Full professor. Teaches History of Medieval and Modern Law, History of Modern and Contemporary Law and History of Modern Codes. He teaches Common Law, History of Italian Law and General Law Theory at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ferrara and Private Law Institutions of the Faculty of Florence and is a member of the scientific committees, writing or administration of numerous periodicals. His research interests are: history of Italian legal culture, history of private legal institutes, codification in modern Europe.
CAZZETTA, Giovanni
Ordinary Professor of History of the Medieval and Modern Law at the University of Ferrara. He graduated in Florence in 1985. Ph.D. in History of Law in Naples (1989). After being a researcher at the Faculty of Law of the University of Florence (1989-1992), he was appointed as associate professor at Ferrara (1992). In the Faculty of Ferrara, he teaches History of Medieval and Modern Law, Community Law, History of Constitutions and modern codifications. His main scientific interests concerns the history of private law, labor law and criminal law in the modern and contemporary period. His studies seek to capture the technical-scientific characteristics of “legal” and its transformations in relation to global cultural changes in society.
COSTA, Prieto
Ordinary Professor of History of Modern and Medieval Law at the Faculty of Law of Florence. He taught History of Law at the Universities of Macerata and Salerno. He takes part of the edition of “Florentine Quotations for the History of Modern Legal Thinking” and the Scientific Council of “Public Law”. His current research interests refer mainly to subjects of citizenship, rights and interpretation of colonial law.
FIORAVANTI, Maurizio
Professor of History of the Modern Constitutions full time. He taught at the universities of Macerata and Modena. He did research in Germany at the Max Planck Institute for the History of European Law and was a member of the Society of German Constitutional History. At the present he integrates the editorial of the “Florentine Quotations for the History of Modern Legal Thinking”, the Scientific Council of Public Law and the Political Philosophy Management Committee. His current interests concerns comparative constitutional history, the history of constitutionalism and, in particular, European constitutional history. He deals, in particular, with the theoretical and historical perspective of the “European constitution”.
GAGLIARDI, Alessio
He graduated in Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1998/99. In 2004, he obtained his doctorate in “History of Contemporary Societies” – sixteenth cycle in the Department of History of the University of Turin. Since 2012, he is a researcher at the University of Bologna. He was a member of the promoter group of the SISSCO National Seminar on Fascism of Thought, organized with the collaboration of the University of Padua and the University of Bologna between 2008 and 2010. He participated in the project The impact of political and social democratic policies (financed in 2012 by the Ecole française de Rome, which involved the following Universities: Université de Paris 8, University of Grenoble and University of Bologna Proponents: Marie-Anne Matard-Bonucci and Patrizia Dogliani). His research interests are: fascism; economic institutions and trade union organizations in contemporary Italy; political cultures of antifascism; the political thinking of Antonio Gramsci; the processes of internationalization in the economic and institutional field between the eighth and twentieth centuries and social movements of the sixties and seventies.
MELIS, Guido
Professor of history of public administration. He taught at the universities of Sassari and Siena. In 1988 he was professor in charge of the Faculty of Law of Aix-en-Provence (Marseilles). Since 2001, he was a member of the board of directors of the School of Administration of the Ministry of Interior. From 1973 to now, he contributed to different reviews such as “Studi storici”, “Quaderni sardi di storia”, “Rivista trimestrale di diritto pubblico”, “Quaderni fiorentini per la storia del giuridico moderna”, “Materiali per una storia della cultura giuridica”. He is also a member of the Foundation Ugo Spirito scientific committee. In 1997, with the book Storia dell’amministrazione italiana, 1861-1993 (Il Mulino, Bologna), he won the Acqui-saggistica storica prize and then the Sissco Prize. From 2008 to 2013 he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies.
NEMORE, Francesca
Consultant of the Banca Intesa San Paolo Historical Archives, IMI archival heritage. Doctor of research in librarian and documentary sciences.
PASETTI, Matteo
Graduated in Contemporary History, University of Bologna. Thesis title: Robert Michels in the Italian culture of the early 900s: between socialism and fascism (1997). Doctorate in History of the Party and Political Movement, University of Urbino. Title of thesis: Sindacale italiano e incomprensione del “sindacalismo nazionale” (1918-1921), 2004. Between 2014 and 2016 he won a research grant from the Department of Stories of Civil Society Culture, University of Bologna. Draft demobilization limits, “1917-1923: Paramilitary violence in Europe and the wider world”, coordinated by R. Gerwarth, Director of the Center for War Studies at the University of Dublin. His research interests are: Italian fascism/European fascism; transnational dissemination of corporate projects and policies during the period between the two world wars; unions and political conflicts in the post-war period; illegal printing of anti-fascism and Italian resistance; social transformations and cultural representations in Italy in the late 19th century and museum representations of historical experiences.
RIDOLFI, Maurizio
Ordinary Professor of Contemporary History of the University of Tuscia (Viterbo). From 1993, he coordinated (with Fulvio Conti) in the direction of “Memory and Research”, a magazine of contemporary monthly stories. From 2001, he´s been the head of the Center for the History of Europe of the Mediterranean (www.cssem.org). Directs the magazine “Officina della storia”. Professor visiting Paris at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Institute for Political Studies, Panthéon-Assas University Paris II, Paris XII. He is a member of the Consultative Committee of Historical Journals in France (“Pasado y Mémoria”, “Alcores”) and Portugal (“Ler Historia”).
SCHMITTER, Philippe
Graduate at the Graduate Institute for International Studies of the University of Geneva and doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley. Since 1967 he has been successively assistant professor, associate professor and professor in the Politics Department of the University of Chicago, then at the European University Institute (1982-86) and at Stanford (1986-96). He has published books and articles on comparative politics, on regional integration in Western Europe and Latin America, on the transition from authoritarian rule in Southern Europe and Latin America, and on the intermediation of class, sectoral and professional interests. His current work is on the political characteristics of the emerging Euro-polity, on the consolidation of democracy in Southern and Eastern countries, and on the possibility of post-liberal democracy in Western Europe and North America. Professor Philippe C. Schmitter was Professor of Political Science at the European University Institute in Florence, Department of Political and Social Sciences until September 2004. He was then nominated Professorial Fellow at the same Institution. He is now Emeritus of the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute.
SERAPIGLIA, Daniele
Has been a researcher of the Instituto de História Contemporânea (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humana – Universidade Nova de Lisboa) since 2016. He is as well an associate researcher of the Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX (Universidade de Coimbra). He completed his doctoral dissertation in European history in 2009 at the Università di Bologna (Italy) and at the Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal), with a thesis that critically looks into Corporativism inside the Salazarist regime. In 2012, he hold a grant of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon), which let him work in Lisbon for 10 months to enhance a project about the relationship between Portuguese press and Italian fascism. Afterwards he obtained a postdoctoral grant for three years at the University of Bologna (2013-2016), where he developed an investigation about the history of Italian volley. He was also visiting scholar at the European University of Madrid. In 2011, he published a monograph: La via portoghese al corporativismo with Carocci, an Italian publishing house with great scientific impact. Between 2014 and 2017, he edited and introduced these books: Il fascismo portoghese. Le interviste di Ferro a Salazar; Tempo Libero, Sport e Fascismo; Percorsi. Scienze sociali tra Italia e Portogallo.
SORDI, Bernardo
Professor of Medieval and Modern Law. He has done research at the Hans Kelsen Institute in Vienna and at the Max-Planck Institut für Europäisis Rechtsgeschichte in Frankfurt am Main. He taught history of Italian law at the University of Camerino. From 2003 to 2012, he directed the Center for Studies on the History of Modern Jurisprudence. He is part of the Florentino Quaderni editorial team. His research interests are: historical and theoretical intersections between law and economics.
STOLZI, Irene
Degree in jurisprudence (academic year 1997-1998) in the history of law. In March of 2002 obtained her doctorate in the University of Siena. Since November 1999 she is a researcher at the University of Florence. Since January 2009, she is a member of the Steering Committee of Society and History. From January 2013 to October 2015, she is deputy director of the Department of Legal Sciences at the University of Florence. As of May 2015, the date of its incorporation, it refers to the Center for Studies on the History of Modern Legal Thought of the International Network for Analysis of Corporatism and the Organization of Interests: Past and Present (NETCOR). Since November 2015 she has been a member of the IRES Scientific Committee in Tuscany. Since February 2016, she has been delegated to the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Policies of Internationalization, president of the committee of the same name created in the Department and responsible for coordinating the internationalization policies of the Department of Legal Sciences. Since 2017 she has been a member of the Editorial Board of SISLAV (Italian company of labor history). Her main interests of study are: history of fascist corporatism; history of the social state; history of the notary; history of contemporary civil law; history of parliamentary inquiries of the 19th century.
TORREGGIANI, Valerio
Is integrated researcher at Instituto de História Contemporânea (Nova University of Lisbon). He holds a PhD in History of Europe (19th-20th centuries) at Tuscia University of Viterbo, he was post-doctoral researcher in Economic History at Roma Tre University and visiting fellow at the Instituto de Ciência Sociais (University of Lisbon). His research interests include: a) the trans-national diffusion of the corporatist ideas between the 19th and the 20th century, analysed under a multiple political, economic, juridical and cultural perspectives and with special regard to the British world; b) the financial and banking history of modern and contemporary history. He is a member of NETCOR (Network for the Analysis of Corporatism and Organized Interests), LISE (Laboratorio Italiano di Storia Economica) and ESHET (European Society for the History of Economic Thought).
ZAGANELLA, Marco
Master in “Geopolitics and Global Security” at Sapienza University of Rome (2003). Ph.D. in “History (Politics, Society, Culture and Territory)” at the University of Rome Tre – Faculty of Arts and Philosophy – Department of Historical, Geographical and Anthropological Studies (2010-2012). Professor of Economics, University of L’Aquila Studies, Department of Industrial Engineering and Information and Economics (2011). Marco Zaganella’s activity covers two areas that intersect and influence each other. The first is the field of research in the historical context, with special attention to public intervention policies in the economy, the second is the organization and coordination of cultural activities at national and international level. Marco Zaganella further explored research on agrarian reform throughout the 1950s, focusing on the specific case of Maremma Toscana, where the local reform institution was chaired in its first phase of activity by Giuseppe Medici.