Adolfo Omodeo

Badoglio II Cabinet

Cavour's liberalism against the critical alterations of the Risorgimento made by monarchist and fascist historians.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

second Badoglio government. Aftetwards, from February to April 1945, he volunteered in the Italian Liberation Corps "to set an example" (already in October 1943, as rector of the University of Naples, he had urged his students to follow the example "of the generation that had fought on the Karst and the Piave"). From 1945 to 1946 he was a member of the National Council. He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei and co-director, together with his great friend Luigi Russo, of the literary magazine Belfagor. He died in 1946 after becoming ill with myelitis, possibly a consequence of malaria he had contracted on the Karst in 1917.^{[1][2][6][3][4]}