Gioacchino Volpe

Gioacchino Volpe (16 February 1876 – 1 October 1971) was an Italian historian and, during the years between the two world wars, a politician.

Born in Paganica, Volpe graduated in Letters at the University of Pisa, and in 1906 he became professor of modern history at the Scientific-Literary Academy of Milan [it]. A nationalist, he supported the Fascism and in 1924 was elected deputy with the National List. He was General Secretary of the Royal Academy of Italy from 1929 to 1934 and member of the Accademia dei Linceifrom 1935 to 1946. Between 1924 and 1940 he was professor of modern history at the University of Rome.

In his works Volpe depicted the history of Italy as a rising process culminated in fascism.After the Greco-Italian War, his attitude towards fascism gradually became critical and distant.After the war, he was purged from the university teaching and focused on his studies.