Roberto de Mattei

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Roberto de Mattei (born February 21, 1948 in Rome ) is an Italian professor of history and publicist .

Life

Roberto de Mattei was born as the son of the historian Freiherr (Baron) Rodolfo de Mattei. After graduating in contemporary history from the Faculty of Political Science at La Sapienza University in Rome , he worked as assistant to Augusto del Noce and later at the side of historian Armando Saitta . From 1986 he took over the chair of contemporary history at the University of Cassino . Today he teaches church history at the Università Europea di Roma .

From 2002 to 2006 he was an advisor to the Italian government on international affairs. From 2003 to 2011 de Mattei was Vice President of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Research Council, comparable in rank to the German Max Planck Society ). De Mattei is chairman of the Lepanto Foundation , an institution of Catholic traditionalists , which is considered "one of the control points in the fight against Pope Francis ". He is also director of the three-month magazine for contemporary history Nova Historica , editor of the monthly magazine Radici Cristiane and head of the news service Corrispondenza Romana .

In 2011, de Mattei described the earthquake in Japan , which was followed by a devastating tsunami , as "proof of the existence of God" and as "just punishment". At another point in time he publicly stated that the fall of the Roman Empire was a result of homosexuality , prostitution, etc.

In 2011, de Mattei received the famous Italian historian prize Premio Acqui Storia for his book The Second Vatican Council - a previously unwritten story (original title: Concilio Vaticano II. Una storia mai scritta ).

Contributions by de Mattei are translated into German by the right-wing conservative web portal "Katholisches.info" and published. In November 2015 he gave an interview to the Priestly Society of St. Pius X. in which he agreed to the statements of Superior General Bernard Fellay regarding the Ordinary Synod of Bishops 2015.

De Mattei is married and has five children.

Works

Italian (selection)

  • Vicario di Cristo. Il primato di Pietro tra normalità ed eccezione, Verona 2013
  • Apologia della tradizione, Torino 2011
  • Concilio Vaticano II. Una storia mai scritta, Turin, Lindau 2010
  • Evoluzionismo. Il tramonto di una ipotesi, Cantagalli, 2009
  • Turchia in Europe. Beneficio o catastrofe? Varese, 2009
  • La liturgia della Chiesa nell'epoca della secolarizzazione. Chieti, 2009
  • The CNR e le scienze umane. Una strategia di rilancio Rome, 2008
  • Finis Vitae: La morte celebrale è ancora vita? Catanzaro, 2007
  • Europe: progetto o memoria - conversazione con Alberto Castaldini. Istituto Italiano di Cultura “Vito Grasso”, Bucharest, 2007
  • La dittatura del relativismo. Chieti, 2007
  • De Europe. Tra radici cristiane e sogni postmoderni. Florence, 2006
  • La Biblioteca delle “Amicizie”. Repertorio critico della cultura cattolica nell'epoca della Rivoluzione 1770-1830. Naples, 2005
  • Quale papa dopo il papa. Casale Monferrato, 2002
  • La sovranità necessaria. Riflessioni sulla crisi dello stato moderno. Rome, 2001
  • Pio IX. Casale Monferrato, 2000
  • Il crociato del secolo XX. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira. Casale Monferrato, 1996
  • Il centro che ci portò a sinistra. Rome, 1994
  • 1900–2000 - Due sogni si succedono: la costruzione / la distruzione. Rome, 1988
  • L'Italia cattolica e il nuovo Concordato. Può un cattolico preferire lo Stato ateo? Rome, 1985

German translations

Further translations (selection)

  • De l'utopie du progrès au règne du chaos (French). Lausanne 1993
  • Il Crociato del secolo XX. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira: Spanish: El Cruzado del siglo XX. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Madrid 1997; Portuguese: O cruzado do seculo XX. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Porto 1997; French: Le Croisé du XX siècle. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Lausanne 1997; English: The Crusader of the XXth Century: Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Leominster (Great Britain) 1998.
  • Pio IX (Portuguese). Postage 2000
  • La souveraineté nécessaire (French). Réflexions sur la déconstruction de l'Etat et ses conséquences pour la société. Paris 2000; Portuguese: A soberania necessária. Postage 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Migge: The wolves howl in the Vatican. Catholic traditionalists attack the Pope, in: BNN, February 16, 2017.
  2. ^ “Nova Historica”, rivista internazionale di storia, diretta da Roberto de Mattei
  3. ^ Radici Cristiane: Diretto da Roberto de Mattei
  4. ^ "Corrispondenza romana" (CR) è un'agenzia cattolica di informazioni, diretta dal prof. Roberto de Mattei
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from August 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Intervento integrale del prof. R. de Mattei a Radio Maria del 19 gennaio 2011
  7. ^ Premio Acqui Storia
  8. ^ Roberto de Mattei and the 'unwritten history of the Second Vatican Council'. To the roots of the crisis of faith. The Gregorian Rite - the most effective answer to the challenge of secular secularism. Interview 2012
  9. ↑ http://www.katholisches.info/?s=%22Roberto+de+Mattei%22
  10. ↑ Interview with Roberto de Mattei: “The Final Report of the Synod is a bad document” , dici.org, November 6, 2015, accessed on: November 18, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME De Mattei, Roberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome