Vittorio Vidotto

Vittorio Vidotto
Born	(1941-03-17)17 March 1941 Milan, Italy
Died	3 February 2024(2024-02-03) (aged 82) Rome, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Education	Sapienza University of Rome
Occupation	Historian

Vittorio Vidotto (17 March 1941 – 3 February 2024) was an Italian historian.[1]

Biography

Born in Milan on 17 March 1941, Vidotto earned a degree in modern literature from the Sapienza University of Rome, where he then taught for several decades.[2] He was also an editor in medieval history and modern history for the Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, where in 1980 he directed the history and contemporary politics departments.

Vidotto was one of the main authors at Italian publishing house Editori Laterza [it], where he worked alongside Vito Laterza [it] and Enrico Mistretta [it]. In 1988, he began to publish numerous scholarly journals and manuscripts for this editor in collaboration with Andrea Giardina [it] and Giovanni Sabbatucci.[3]

Vittorio Vidotto died in Rome on 3 February 2024, at the age of 82.[4]

Publications

• Il Partito Comunista Italiano dalle origini al 1946 (1975)
• Storia d'Italia (1994–1999)
• Roma contemporanea (2001)
• Storia di Roma dall'antichità a oggi (2002)
• Italiani/e. Dal miracolo economico a oggi (2005)
• Guida allo studio della storia contemporanea (2006)
• 20 settembre 1870. La breccia di Porta Pia (2007)
• 1978. Il delitto Moro, in Novecento italiano (2008)
• Il mondo contemporaneo. Dal 1848 a oggi (2008)
• Nuovi Profili storici (2008)
• Storia contemporanea. L'Ottocento (2009)
• Storia moderna (2010)
• Atlante del Ventesimo secolo (2011)
• Storia contemporanea. Il Novecento (2011)
• Storia contemporanea. Il Novecento (2012)
• I mondi della Storia (2014)

References

1. "Décès de l'historien Vittorio Vidotto, auteur de nombreux manuels d'histoire". Il Messaggero (in French). 3 February 2024. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
2. "Biografia di Vittorio Vidotto". cinquantamila.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 4 September 2017.
3. "Vidotto Vittorio". Il Narratore (in Italian). Archived from the original on 27 May 2015.
4. Carioti, Antonio (3 February 2024). "Morto lo storico Vittorio Vidotto, autore di un importante libro di testo". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 5 February 2024.