Claudio Pavone

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Claudio Pavone (born November 30, 1920 in Rome ; † November 29, 2016 there ) was an Italian historian and archivist .

Claudio Pavone was involved in the Socialist Party during and after the Resistance . Pavone graduated from the University of Rome with a law degree in 1943. As a student he secretly distributed anti-fascist leaflets in Rome. He was then imprisoned in the Regina Coeli prison in Rome for ten months in October 1943 .

In the post-war period he worked on the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani . As a state archivist, he entered the public service in 1949 and remained in this position until the 1970s. From 1974 until his retirement in 1991 he taught as a professor of contemporary history at the University of Pisa . In 1994 he was elected President of the Italian Association of Contemporary Historians, Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea . He held the office from 1994 to 1998 for two terms. In 1993 he became the editor of Parolechiave magazine and directed it for 20 years.

Pavone explored the continuities and breaks in the Italian state. In 1974 he presented a highly acclaimed work with La continuità dello Stato: Istituzioni e uomini . He argued that Italy experienced civil war during the occupation. At a conference in Belluno in the autumn of 1988, he presented his theses on the three wars that would have entangled for the Italians from 1943 to 1945: a war against the Germans, one against the Salò fascists and a class struggle, especially of the left partisan movement for more social justice. This fundamentally contradicted the prevailing narrative of the resistance movement, which only knew a war of liberation. He also represented his point of view in his main work Una guerra civile , which was almost 1000 pages long and published in 1991. The work was translated into French in 2005 and into English in 2013. In Italy no other scientific work has been able to develop such an enormous impact in the last 50 years.

Based on election results and local administrative action, he refuted the myth that the Romans would have liked to keep the Papal State in 1870. As a state archivist, he made lasting merits by making the files from the time of the fascist dictatorship accessible to research. In collaboration with other state archivists, he designed the multi-volume general directory of the Italian state archives. He also submitted an edition of the scattered documents on the Garibaldi Brigades .

Pavone died in Rome on the eve of his 96th birthday. He had three daughters and was married to the historian Anna Rossi-Doria for the second time .

Fonts

  • Una was civile. Saggio storico sulla moralità nella Resistenza (= Nuova cultura. Vol. 28). Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 1991, ISBN 88-339-0629-9 .
  • Amministrazione centrale e amministrazione periferica da Rattazzi a Ricasoli (1859–1866) (= Organizzazione dello stato. Collana di studi e testi nel centenario dell 'Unità. Vol. 2). Giuffrè, Milan 1964.

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  1. ^ Lutz Klinkhammer: On the death of the Italian historian Claudio Pavone. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. December 2, 2016, No. 282, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Pavone, Claudio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH 29th November 2016
Place of death Rome