Santo Mazzarino

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Santo Mazzarino (born January 27, 1916 in Catania , † May 18, 1987 in Rome ) was an Italian ancient historian . Due to the originality of his research and the diversity of his interests, he is considered to be one of the most important representatives of his subject in Italy in the second half of the 20th century.

Santo Mazzarino graduated from high school in 1932 in his native Catania and then studied several humanities. He completed it at the University of Catania with a thesis on ancient history with Luigi Pareti , and then followed up with a “postgraduate course” with Rudolf Pfeiffer and Walter Otto in Munich . In 1937 he became a teacher of ancient languages at a humanistic high school in Acireale . In 1939 he joined the Italian Institute for Ancient History in Rome as a member. From 1944 Mazzarino taught at the University of Catania. In 1951 he was appointed to the Ordinariate of Ancient History there . In 1964 he changed to a professorship for Roman history at the Roman University of La Sapienza , where he taught until his retirement in 1986. In 1974 he also became director of the Instituto di Storia romana and the Scuola di perfizionamento in Storia antica . From 1974 he also headed the Instituto di Storia greca .

At the beginning of his research career, Mazzarino dealt with late antiquity . His research on Stilicho as well as on the 4th century already shows the independent research approaches. The member of the Partito Comunista Italiano also gave important impulses in economic and social history . For Mazzarino, late antiquity was a political and social decline, but not a cultural one. At the suggestion of his teacher Pareti, he reinterpreted the history of the archaic epoch of Greece in an anti-classical way. Mazzarino's main work was a study of historical thinking, the beginnings of which he saw in early Greek orphic orphic poetry and which he studied until late antiquity. In 1973 he became a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei .

Fonts (selection)

  • Stilicone. La crisi imperiale dopo Teodosio (= Studi pubblicati dall'Istituto Italiano per la Storia Antica. No. 3). Signorelli, Rome 1942 (also: Rizzoli, Milan 1990, ISBN 88-17-33616-5 ).
  • Dalla monarchia allo stato repubblicano. Ricerche di storia romana arcaica. Agnini, Catania 1945 (several editions).
  • Serena e le due Eudossie (= Quaderni di studi romani. Vol. 7, ZDB -ID 780741-7 ). Istituto di Studi Romani, Rome 1946.
  • Introduzione alle guerre puniche (= Saggi e ricerche. Vol. 13, ZDB -ID 1195260-x ). Crisafulli, Catania 1947 (several editions).
  • Fra Oriente e Occidente. Ricerche di storia Greca arcaica. “La nuova Italia”, Florence 1947 (several editions).
  • Aspetti sociali del quarto secolo. Ricerche di storia tardo-romana (= Problemi e ricerche di storia antica. Vol. 1, ZDB -ID 1453597-x ). "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, Rome 1951.
  • Storia romana e storiografia moderna (= Criterion. Vol. 5, ZDB -ID 2280110-8 ). Conte, Naples et al. 1954.
  • as editor: L'Impero romano (= Trattato di storia romana. Vol. 2). Tumminelli, Rome 1956 (several editions).
  • La fine del mondo antico (= Series Saper tutto. 153/155, ZDB -ID 1476933-5 ). Garzanti, Milan 1959 (several editions; in German: Das Ende der antiken Welt. Piper, Munich 1961).
  • Il pensiero storico classico. 3 volumes. Laterza, Bari 1965–1966 (several editions).
  • Vico, l'annalistica e il diritto (= Studi vichiani. Vol. 5, ZDB -ID 148766-8 ). Guida, Naples 1971.
  • Il basso impero. 2 volumes. Dedalo, Bari 1974–1980, ISBN 88-220-0513-9 (vol. 1), ISBN 88-220-0514-7 (vol. 2). Reprinted as: Il basso impero. Antico, tardoantico ed era costantiniana. Bari 2003.
  • Storia sociale del Vescovo Ambrogio (= Problemi e ricerche di storia antica. Vol. 4). "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, Rome 1989, ISBN 88-7062-664-4 .

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SURNAME Mazzarino, Santo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Catania
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1987
Place of death Rome