Claudio Pavone
Claudio Pavone (30 November 1920 – 29 November 2016[1]) was an Italian historian and archivist.
Pavone was the president of the Historic Institute of the Liberation movement in Italy, the president of the Italian Society of Contemporary History and the director of the historical journal Parolechiave (Keywords). He died aged 95, just one day shy of his 96th birthday.
Biography
The partisan experience
During the Second World War, Pavone was enlisted as customs guard in Malles, near the Italian-Swiss frontier and far from the war front. From autumn 1943 until the end of the war 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.
After the war he worked as an archivist in the Italian National Archives. He played a central role in the organization of the Italian
Works
Pavone published, for
In 1991 he published Una Guerra Civile
References
- ^ "E' morto Claudio Pavone: aprì il dibattito sulla Resistenza come guerra civile". Repubblica.it (in Italian). 2016-11-29. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
- OCLC 797565709.
- ^ Sassoon, Donald (22 December 2016). "Claudio Pavone obituary". Retrieved 22 December 2016 – via The Guardian.
- ^ "CLAUDIO PAVONE E I TABÙ INFRANTI - la Repubblica.it". Archivio - la Repubblica.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-04-05.
- OCLC 897404606.
External links
- Pavone's biography from Rai Educational website (in Italian)
- Pavone talks with students from Rai Educational website (in Italian)