Luigi Firpo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian historian and politician
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Place of Birth: Turin, Piedmont, Italy
About Luigi Firpo
- Luigi Firpo (4 January 1915 in Turin – 2 March 1989 in Turin) was an Italian historian and politician. He taught history of political thought at the University of Turin.
- He has been credited as "an excellent editor and lucky finder of texts" which were particularly influential in the study of Tommaso Campanella.
- In 1943, a time of great upheaval for Italy, Firpo discovered in Trento's Civic Library a 1602 manuscript of Campanella's The City of the Sun (shelf mark BCT1-1538), which is considered the most ancient manuscript copy that has survived to present time. Firpo was a member of the Italian Republican Party and of the Italian Parliament serving from 9 July 1987 to March 2, 1989.
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