Claudio Pavone

Claudio Pavone (born 30 November 1920 in Rome) is an Italian historian.

Currently, Pavone is the president of the Historic Institute of the Liberation movement in Italy, the vice-president of the Italian Society of Contemporary History and the director of the review of historic-politic studies Parolechiave (Keywords).

Biography

The partisan experience

As a very young man, from the fall of fascism in Italy in 1943, he participated in the Italian resistance movement.

This experience, as well as informing his civil conscience and political vision, also influenced his activity as a historian, both with regard to his chosen field of research and the way in which he analysed it.

The job to the State archives

When war ended he was for many years a State archivist.

The archives was the ideal place for his interests and passions, because it allowed him to consult, day by day, much of the available documents relevant to the history of Italian fascism, World War II and of antifascism.

University professor

Pavone was associate professor at the University of Pisa.

Works

Pavone published, for Bollati Boringhieri, Alle Origini della Repubblica (To the Origins of the Republic), an historic analysis of the route that led from the demise of the fascist regime, 25 July 1943, to the advent of the Republic on 2 June 1946 .

In the 1995 he published Una Guerra Civile (A Civil War), an analysis of the origins, the motivations and intentions that underpinned the fight between fascist and antifascist Italy .

External links

• Pavone's biography from Rai Educational website (Italian)
• Pavone talks with students from Rai Educational website (Italian)