Professional Affiliation

Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History, University of Connecticut

Expert Bio

Sergio Luzzatto is professor and the Emiliana Pasca Noether Chair in Modern Italian History at the University of Connecticut. He was born in Italy, and received his Ph.D from Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, as well as from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Before joining UConn, he taught for almost twenty years at the University of Turin, as a full professor in European Modern History. His four monographs on French history (Mémoire de la Terreur, 1991; L’impôt du sang, 1996; L’automne de la Révolution, 2001; Bonbon Robespierre, 2010) have been translated into French and have been widely reviewed not only in academic publications, but also in the cultural press. Three of his books on Italian history (The Body of Il Duce, 2005; Padre Pio, 2010; Primo Levi’s Resistance, 2016) have been translated into English by Metropolitan Books and into French by the eminent publishing house Gallimard. His book on Padre Pio won the Cundill History Prize in 2011. Since 2001, he has been a regular contributor to the cultural pages of Italy’s leading newspapers: La Stampa, Corriere della Sera, and Il Sole 24 Ore. His latest monograph, the Holocaust-related I bambini di Moshe (2018), is due for translation into English and/or Hebrew by Yad Vashem Publications in Jerusalem. As a general editor, he designed and coordinated, together with Victoria de Grazia, the two-volume Dizionario del fascismo (“Dictionary of Fascism”: Einaudi, Turin 2002-2003). His current research project deals with the history of terrorism in Italy, from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.