Paolo Spriano (30 November 1925 – 26 September 1988) was an Italian historian of the Italian labor and communist movement.

Career

Spriano studied at the University of Turin. He joined partisans of the Italian Resistance and was a member of the Giustizia e Libertà.[1] After the war he became a journalist for l'Unita and in 1946 joined the Italian Communist Party and was subsequently elected a member of its central committee.[2] He was one of members of the PCI who opposed the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian 1956 uprising.[3] All his historiographical production is centered on moments and figures of the Italian and international labor movement. In the last years of his life he was full professor of History of political parties at the La Sapienza University of Rome.[3]

He died in Rome on September 26, 1988. According to Massimo D'Alema, Spriano's "sudden death broke the thread of his work. The papers on his table remained, the notes, the first notes." He was examining the documents handed to him by Gorbachev to demonstrate Soviet interest in Gramsci's release from fascist prisons.[4] The books from his private library were donated by his family to the Gramsci Foundation in Rome.[3]

Works

References

  1. ^ "Donne e Uomini della Resistenza: Paolo Spriano". ANPI (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  2. ^ "Spriano, Paolo nell'Enciclopedia Treccani". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  3. ^ a b c "SPRIANO, Paolo in "Dizionario Biografico"". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  4. ^ Massimo D'Alema, I fogli sulla macchina da scrivere, in L'ultima ricerca di Paolo Spriano. Dagli archivi dell'URSS i documenti segreti sui tentativi per salvare Antonio Gramsci, Roma, L'Unità, 1988, p. 3.
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