Vladimiro Satta

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Vladimiro Satta (born August 29, 1960 in Rome ) is an Italian historian. He has specialized in the Italian contemporary history of the Anni di piombo with a number of terrorist attacks, in particular that on top politician Aldo Moro , and has dealt with conspiracy theories on the involvement of secret organizations.

Live and act

After graduating from Liceo Gaetano De Sanctis in Rome, Satta studied philosophy with a focus on history. In 1984 he received the academic degree of Laurea (about: Magister Artium ) for a thesis on the political parties of reform socialism , supervised by Gastone Manacorda . For this he had received a grant from the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche . In the second half of the 1980s, Satta wrote reviews and articles for the historical journal Clio (edited by Carlo Ghisalberti ) and personal articles for the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani . In 1986 he received the license to teach history, philosophy and pedagogy for the lower secondary level (schuola media) , but did not teach, but joined the documentation service of the Italian parliament in 1987 . From 1987 to 1989 he worked for the Italian Senate in the press office of the Senate President and from 1989 to 2001 for the parliamentary commission of inquiry into “terrorismo e le Stragi” (for example: terrorism and attacks, also known as “massacre commission”). He was then entrusted with research on other topics and has been working for Parliament's scientific service since 2004.

In 2001 he continued his work as a writer and appears as a contemporary history expert in the press, radio and television. His research focuses on the Italian Republic , especially the 1960s and 1970s, and the then prevalent issues of public order, political violence and the fight against terrorism and organized crime. In doing so, Satta cannot be assigned to any ideological or political position, describes Giampietro Berti in the daily newspaper Il Giornale . In addition to a series of articles in the historical journal Nuova storia contemporanea , Satta has written several monographs on his research focus since 2003. In 2003 and 2006 books appeared on the kidnapping and murder of Democrazia Cristiana chairman Aldo Moro , in which he for the first time scientifically evaluated the extensive material that the parliamentary inquiries had collected on this complex. The contemporary historian Tobias Hof summarized Satta's results 2007 in such a way that the "countless conspiracy theories [...] not only do not provide an alternative explanation for the events, but also cannot be maintained." The contemporary historian Petra Terhoeven judged in 2014 in her study German Autumn in Europe "In recent years, Satta has made a name for himself as a knowledgeable campaigner against the conspiracy theories in Italy in the Moro kidnapping case."

Satta's overall presentation I nemici della Repubblica , published in 2016, on the Anni di piombo , the terrorist years in Italy from the bomb attack on Piazza Fontana in 1969 to the Bologna attack in 1980 , evaluated, among other things, the approximately one million pages of research carried out by parliamentary investigations. Satta opposes the “dietrologia” widespread in Italy, which suspects state or secret service conspiracies behind the visible surface of the entire wave of terrorist attacks. According to the discussion at L'Espresso , the book is based on two ideas: the state has defeated its terrorist opponents without compromising democratic institutions, and terrorism is a largely domestic problem without the involvement of foreign powers. In doing so, Satta contradicts the hypothesis of a strategy of tension , spread by publicists such as Daniele Ganser and Regine Igel , by means of which stay-behind organizations in Italy and other Western European countries would have faked terrorist attacks under the cover name Gladio ( false flag ). Paolo Mieli closes his review in the Corriere della Sera with the consideration that it might be time to tell the recent history of Italy in a less suggestive tone than before. The book won the Premio Friuli Storia in 2016 and the scientific section of the Premio Acqui Storia , two Italian literary prizes .

Fonts

  • Odissea nel caso Moro. Viaggio controcorrente attraverso la documentazione della Commissione Stragi. EdUP, Rome 2003.
  • Il caso Moro ei suoi falsi misteri. Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2006.
  • I nemici della Repubblica: Storia degli anni di piombo. Rizzoli, Milan 2016 (preview) .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clio. Rivista trimestrale di studi storici. In: Edizioniesi.it (Italian).
  2. ↑ Antonio Tabucchi : What will happen to Italy? In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 17, 2010.
  3. ^ Giampietro Berti: Anni di piombo senza dietrologie nel libro di Satta. In: Il Giornale , August 24, 2016 (Italian).
  4. ↑ Tobias Hof: The Aldo Moro Case and Terrorism in Italy. In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries . Vol. 87, 2007, pp. 437-446, here pp. 439-442 (PDF) . Quote p. 441. See also Tobias Hof: State and Terrorism in Italy 1969–1982 (= sources and representations on contemporary history. Vol. 81). Oldenbourg, Munich 2011 (also dissertation, University of Munich, 2009), pp. 64 , 242, 246 (“consistently convincing”, “conclusive”).
  5. ↑ Petra Terhoeven: German Autumn in Europe: The Left Terrorism of the Seventies as a Transnational Phenomenon. Oldenbourg, Munich 2014, p. 41.
  6. ↑ Guido Vitello: Castelli di carte. In: Il Sole 24 Ore , April 22, 2016 (Italian).
  7. ↑ On this concept, Patrick Johnson: What Lurks Behind. Dietrologia and the Italian State. In: The Journal of Politics and Society. Volume 19, 2008, pp. 104-124 PDF ; Mark Liberman: Behindology. In: Language Log , February 16, 2008; Robert Lane Greene: Italian worldviews: Dietrologia. In: The Economist , March 15, 2011 (English); dietrologìa. In: Encyclopedia Treccani (Italian). The Dizionario Zanichelli gives the year 1974 as the first document: dietrologìa.
  8. ^ Paolo Mieli : Anni di piombo, la dietrologia da sfatare. In: Corriere della Sera , February 29, 2016 (Italian); Leopoldo Fabiani: Gli anni di piombo senza dietrologie. In: L'Espresso , March 31, 2016 (Italian); Giampietro Berti: Anni di piombo senza dietrologie nel libro di Satta. In: Il Giornale , August 24, 2016 (Italian).
  9. ^ Satta vince il premio Friuli Storia con “I nemici della Repubblica”. In: Messaggero Veneto - Giornale del Friuli , September 7, 2016 (Italian).
  10. ^ Daniele Prato: Battista, Solinas, Satta e De Pascalis. Svelati i vincitori della 49ª edition of the “Acqui Storia”. In: La Stampa , September 21, 2016 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Satta, Vladimiro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome