Rosario Romeo
| Rosario Romeo | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 October 1924 Giarre, Catania, Sicily, Italy |
| Died |
16 March 1987 (aged 62) Rome, Italy |
| Occupation | Historian Writer Politician |
Rosario Romeo (11 October 1924 – 16 March 1987) was a leading historian of the Italian Risorgimento and of Italian modern history more generally. His best-known work is probably the wide-ranging and substantial (3 volume) biography of Cavour, of which the third volume appeared only in 1984, following a gestation period, according to at least one source, of nearly thirty years.
Romeo also became a politician, sitting as a member of the Italian Republican Party in the European Parliament between 1984 and his death in 1987.
Rosario Romeo was born in Giarre, a small town on the eastern coast of Sicily. His passion for History was triggered when he was 14 and he read "Il Medioevo" ("The Middle Ages") by Gioacchino Volpe. He studied at the University of Catania under the historian-politician Gioacchino Volpe and the historian Nino Valeri, graduating in 1947 with a dissertation on the Risorgimento in Sicily. In 1947 he won a scholarship awarded by the newly established Naples based and was thereby enabled to develop his university dissertation into his first book. After this the Institute's president, Federico Chabod, invited Rosario to collaborate on the Italian Dictionary of National Biography, then as now a "work in progress". Romeo then moved to Naples, accepting an appointment as secretary of the in 1953, staying in Naples till 1956.
He took a history professorship at Messina where in 1956, still aged only 31, he was immediately elected head of the History Faculty. In 1962 Rosario Romeo took a position as Professor of Modern History at Rome University, working initially in the Faculty of Education, and transferring later to the Humanities Faculty. In 1977 he became a professor at the European University Institute in Florence where he stayed for most of 1978. Back in Rome, in November 1978 he was appointed rector/provost of the "Guido Carli" Free International University for Social Studies (LUISS): he stayed at the LUISS till 1984.
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