List: Italian historians

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•  Andrea Alciato

  Andrea Alciato, commonly known as Alciati (Andreas Alciatus) (January 12, 1492 - 1550), was an Italian jurist and writer. He is regarded as the founder of the French school of legal humanists.

  

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•  Giulio Alenio

  Giulio Alenio was an Italian Jesuit missionary and scholar. He was born at Brescia, in Italy, and died at Yanping, China. He became a member of the Society of Jesus in 1600, and was distinguished for his knowledge of mathematics and theology. He entered the Society of Jesus and was sent to the East. He landed at Macau in 1610, and while waiting a favourable opportunity to penetrate into China busied himself for three years in teaching mathematics.

  

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•  Paul the Deacon

  Paul the Deacon (c. 720 – 13 April probably 799), also known as Paulus Diaconus, Warnefred, Barnefridus and Cassinensis,, was a Benedictine monk and historian of the Lombards.

  

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•  Pietro Bembo

  Pietro Bembo (May 20, 1470 - either 11 January or 18 January, 1547) was a Venetian scholar, poet, literary theorist, and cardinal. He was an influential figure in the development of the Italian language, specifically Tuscan, as a literary medium, and his writings assisted in the 16th-century revival of interest in the works of Petrarch. Bembo's ideas were also decisive in the formation of the most important secular musical form of the 16th century, the madrigal.

  

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•  Liutprand of Cremona

  Liutprand (also Liudprand, Liuprand, Lioutio, Liucius, Liuzo, and Lioutsios; c. 922 – 972) was a Lombard historian and author, and Bishop of Cremona. He was born into a prominent family of Pavia towards the beginning of the 10th century. In 931 he entered service as page to Hugh of Arles, who kept court at Pavia as King of Italy and who married the notorious and powerful Marozia of Rome. He was educated at the court and became a cleric at the Cathedral of Pavia.

  

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•  Caesar Baronius

  Cesare Baronio (also known as Caesar Baronius; August 30, 1538 – June 30, 1607) was an Italian Cardinal and ecclesiastical historian. Baronio was born at Sora, and was educated at Veroli and Naples. At Rome he joined the Congregation of the Oratory in 1557 under St. Philip Neri and succeeded him as superior in 1593. Pope Clement VIII, whose confessor he was, made him cardinal in 1596 and librarian of the Vatican.

  

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•  Hugo Falcandus

  Hugo Falcandus was an Italian historian who chronicled the reign of William I of Sicily and the minority of his son William II in a highly critical work entitled The History of the Tyrants of Sicily (or Liber de Regno Sicilie). There is some doubt as to whether "Hugo Falcandus" is a real name or a pseudonym. Evelyn Jamison argued that he was Eugenius, amiratus from 1190. The Frenchman Hugues Foucaud (Hugo Fulcaudus), abbot of Saint-Denis, has been proposed as an author.

  

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•  Girolamo Tiraboschi

  Girolamo Tiraboschi (December 18, 1731 - June 9, 1794) was an Italian literary critic, the first historian of Italian literature. Born in Bergamo, he studied at the Jesuit college in Monza, entered the order, and was appointed in 1755 professor of eloquence in the University of Milan. Here he produced (1766-1768) Vetera humiliatorum monumenta (3 vols), a history of the extinct order of the Humiliati, which made his literary reputation.

  

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•  Gino Capponi

  Marquis Gino Capponi (September 13, 1792 – February 3, 1876) was an Italian statesman and historian. The Capponi family is one of the most illustrious Florentine houses, and is mentioned as early as 1250; it acquired great wealth as a mercantile and banking firm, and many of its members distinguished themselves in the service of the republic and the Medicis, and later in that of the house of Lorraine.

  

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•  Stefano Infessura

  Stefano Infessura (c. 1435 – c. 1500) was an Italian humanist historian and lawyer. He is remembered through his municipalist Diary of the City of Rome, a partisan chronicle of events at Rome by the Colonna family's point of view. He was in a position to hear everything that circulated in informed Roman circles, for he was the longtime secretary of the Roman Senate.

  

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•  Benedetto Accolti the Elder

  Benedetto Accolti (1415–1464) was an Italian jurist, humanist and historian. He was born at Arezzo in Tuscany, of a prominent family, several members of which were distinguished like himself for their attainments in law.

  

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•  Polydore Vergil

  Polydore Vergil or Virgil (c. 1470 – 18 April 1555) was an Italian historian, otherwise known as PV Castellensis. He is better known as the contemporary historian during the early Tudor dynasty. He was hired by Henry VIII, who wanted to distance himself away from his father Henry VII as much as possible, to document both his and his father's lives. Naturally, the historical accuracy has come into question especially concerning Henry VII.

  

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•  Gaetano Salvemini

  Gaetano Salvemini (November 8, 1873 - September 6, 1957) was an Italian anti-fascist politician, historian and writer.

  

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•  Pietro Colletta

  Pietro Colletta (January 23, 1775 – November 11, 1831) was a Neapolitan general and historian, entered the Neapolitan artillery in 1796 and took part in the campaign against the French in 1798.

  

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•  Pasquale Villari

  Pasquale Villari (3 October 1827 – 11 December 1917) was an Italian historian and politician.

  

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•  Cesare Cantù

  Cesare Cantù (December 5, 1804 – March 15, 1895) was an Italian historian. Cantù was born at Brivio, in Lombardy, and began his career as a teacher. His first literary essay (1828) was a romantic poem entitled Algiso, o la Lega Lombarda (new ed, Milan; 1876), and in the following year he produced a Storia della città e della diocesi di Como in two volumes (Como, 1829).

  

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•  Scipione Ammirato

  Scipione Ammirato (1531-1601) was an Italian historian. Ammirato was born at Lecce, in the kingdom of Naples. His father, intending him for the profession of law, sent him to study at Naples, but his own decided preference for literature prevented him from fulfilling his father's wishes. Entering the church, he resided for a time at Venice, and afterwards engaged in the service of Pope Pius IV.

  

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•  Enrico Caterino Davila

  Enrico Caterino Davila (October 30, 1576 - May 26, 1631) was an Italian historian and diplomat.

  

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•  Girolamo Mei

  Girolamo Mei (27 May 1519 – July, 1594) was an Italian historian and humanist, famous in music history for providing the intellectual impetus to the Florentine Camerata, which attempted to revive ancient Greek music drama. He was born Florence, and died in Rome. Mei was the first European after Boethius to do a detailed study of ancient Greek music theory. He compiled his findings in a major treatise, De modis musicis antiquorum (not formally published, but written 1568 to 1573).

  

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•  Francesco Guicciardini

  Francesco Guicciardini (March 6, 1483 - May 22, 1540) was an Italian historian and statesman. A friend and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli, he is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance. Guicciardini is considered as the Father of Modern History, due to his use of government documents to verify his "History of Italy."

  

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•  Luigi Carlo Farini

  Luigi Carlo Farini (October 22, 1812 – August 1, 1866) was an Italian statesman and historian.

  

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•  Gaetano Milanesi

  Gaetano Milanesi (1813-1895) was an Italian scholar and writer on the history of art.

  

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•  Carlo Ginzburg

  Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and pioneer of microhistory. He is most famous for his ground-breaking book, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller, which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio, from Montereale Valcellina.

  

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•  Arnaldo Momigliano

  Arnaldo Dante Momigliano KBE was an Italian historian known for his work in historiography, characterized by Donald Kagan as the "world’s leading student of the writing of history in the ancient world. " He became Professor of Roman history at the University of Turin in 1936, but as a Jew soon lost his position due to the anti-Jewish Racial Laws (enacted by the Fascist regime in 1938), and moved to England, where he remained.

  

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•  Flavio Biondo

  Flavio Biondo (1392 – June 4, 1463) was an Italian Renaissance humanist historian. He was the historian who coined the term Middle Ages and is known as one of the first archaeologists. Born in the capital city of Forlì, in the Romagna region, Flavio was well schooled from an early age, studying under Ballistario of Cremona. During a brief stay in Milan, he discovered and transcribed the unique manuscript of Cicero's dialogue Brutus.

  

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