Niccolò Rodolico, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian historian
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Place of Birth: Trapani, Sicily, Italy
About Niccolò Rodolico
- Niccolò Rodolico (14 March 1873 – 1969) was an Italian historian, a professor in the University of Messina and the University of Florence. Born at Trapani, a fishing port in Sicily, after attending the Liceo Ximenes in his home town, where he was a friend of Giovanni Gentile, Rodolico went on to the University of Bologna.
- There, he was a student of Giosuè Carducci, who directed him towards focussing on the study of history.
- At first his interests centred on the Late Middle Ages, with particular regard to the social history of Florence.
- Later, he turned his attention towards modern history and above all that of Tuscany and Southern Italy in the eighteenth century.
- He took a particular interest in the life and work of the 19th-century monarch Charles Albert of Sardinia.Rodolico was a close friend of the anti-fascist Gaetano Salvemini, who left the country during the 1920s.The former King Umberto II, while in exile, nominated Rodolico as a member of the Royal Council of Senators and awarded him the Civil Order of Savoy, the highest honour available to him. Rodolico died at Fiesole in 1969.
- A high school in Florence has been named after him.
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