Paul Ginsborg
Born
Paul Anthony Ginsborg

18 July 1945
London, Middlesex, England
Died11 May 2022 (2022-05-12) (aged 76)
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
NationalityBritish
OccupationHistorian
Academic background
Alma materQueens' College, Cambridge
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
University of Siena
University of Florence
Main interestsContemporary European History

Paul Anthony Ginsborg (18 July 1945 – 11 May 2022) was a British historian. In the 1980s, he was Professor at the University of Siena; from 1992, he was Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence.[1]

Education and activism

Ginsborg was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a BA degree in History in 1966.[2] He was a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.[3] With Pancho Pardi, he opposed Silvio Berlusconi's justice reforms, and campaigned alongside the girotondi movement.[4][5]

Law on Holocaust denial

Ginsborg was of Jewish parentage. Along with Carlo Ginzburg, Marcello Flores, Sergio Luzzatto, Claudio Pavone, Enzo Traverso, et al., he signed a call in January 2002 against a law project, presented by Justice Minister Clemente Mastella, to specifically penalize Holocaust denial. They argued that Italy's legislation was sufficient to cope with such acts. The amended law project finally restricted itself to reinforcing sentences concerning hate speech.[6]

Publications

  • Daniele Manin e la rivoluzione veneziana del 1848-49, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1978; Torino, Einaudi, 2007. ISBN 978-88-06-14972-7.
  • Storia d'Italia dal dopoguerra a oggi. Società e politica 1943-1988, 2 voll., Torino, Einaudi, 1989. ISBN 88-06-11386-0; Milano, Einaudi scuola, 1996. ISBN 88-286-0208-2.(In English: A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics, 1943–1988, Macmillan 2003).
  • Dialogo su Berlinguer, con Massimo D'Alema, Firenze, Giunti, 1994. ISBN 88-09-20545-6.
  • Stato dell'Italia, a cura di, Milano, Il saggiatore-B. Mondadori, 1994. ISBN 88-428-0147-X.
  • Le virtù della Repubblica. Conversazione a Formia, a cura di, Milano, Il saggiatore, 1994. ISBN 88-428-0209-3.
  • Enti locali, società civile e famiglia nell'educazione in Toscana, a cura di e con Dario Ragazzini e Gastone Tassinari, Firenze, Edizioni Regione Toscana, 1996.
  • L'Italia del tempo presente. Famiglia, società civile, Stato 1980-1996, Torino, Einaudi, 1998. ISBN 88-06-14595-9.
  • Storia d'Italia 1943-1996. Famiglia, società, Stato, Torino, Einaudi, 1998. ISBN 88-06-14596-7.
  • Un'Italia minore. Famiglia, istruzione e tradizioni civiche in Valdelsa, a cura di e con Francesco Ramella, Firenze, Giunti, 1999. ISBN 88-09-01457-X.
  • Italy and its Discontents 1980-2001, Penguin, 2001.
  • Berlusconi. Ambizioni patrimoniali in una democrazia mediatica, Torino, Einaudi, 2003. ISBN 88-06-16672-7.
  • Il tempo di cambiare. Politica e potere della vita quotidiana, Torino, Einaudi, 2004. ISBN 88-06-16324-8.
  • La democrazia che non c'è, Torino, Einaudi, 2006. ISBN 88-06-18540-3.
  • Storia d'Italia. Annali, XXII, Il Risorgimento, a cura di e con Alberto Mario Banti, Torino, Einaudi, 2007. ISBN 978-88-06-16729-5.
  • Salviamo l'Italia, Torino, Einaudi, 2010. ISBN 978-88-06-20226-2.
  • Berlusconismo. Analisi di un sistema di potere, a cura di e con Enrica Asquer, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2011. ISBN 978-88-420-9657-3.
  • Passions and Politics, with Sergio Labate (Polity, 2019).

References

  1. ↑ "E' morto lo storico Paul Ginsborg, ha raccontato la storia d'Italia". la Repubblica (in Italian). 11 May 2022. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  2. ↑ "Tripos results: Languages, History, and Natural Sciences", Times, 24 June 1966, p. 17.
  3. ↑ "Paul Ginsborg obituary". The Guardian. 3 June 2022. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  4. ↑ "Berlusconi confronted by circular argument". The Guardian. 18 September 2002. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  5. ↑ Albertazzi, Daniele; Brook, Clodagh; Ross, Charlotte; Rothenberg, Nina (24 June 2009). Resisting the Tide: Cultures of Opposition Under Berlusconi (2001-06). Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-4411-7106-1.
  6. ↑ Sous la pression des historiens, l’Italie renonce à pénaliser le négationnisme Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, Human Rights League (LDH), 1 February 2007 (in French)


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