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The strong connection between Arnaldo Momigliano’s historical work and his Jewish cultural upbringing is today widely accepted, and not simply as regards his intellectual biography. The fact that the editors of the present volume have... more
These are very brief notes on the work of Richard Sorabji, Karl Löwith, Arnaldo Momigliano, and Hayden White. The goal is to summarize some of the main contributions of each author to the study of historiography and historical... more
Arnaldo Momigliano, Aspects of Hellenistic Judaism. Lectures delivered in London, Cincinnati, Chicago, Oxford and Princeton, 1977-1982. Ed. by Lea Niccolai and Antonella Soldani; Electronic resource available on the website of the... more
Il saggio esamina i rapporti intellettuali tra la scuola italiana di storia antica, in particolari gli storici di Grecia: Gaetano De Sanctis, Aldo Ferrabino, Arnaldo Momigliano, Piero Treves, e il fascismo a cavallo tra il1927 e il 1939
Commenting on historiography in medieval Europe. An attempt at the characteristics of the phenomenon on the basis of selected sources from the Romance countries (11th–15th centuries)
Based on unpublished archival documents, this article shed light on the failed attempt made by the historian Arnaldo Momigliano to settle in the United States between 1938 and 1941, to escape Fascist anti-Semitism.
Modern scholarship seems to undervalue medieval commentaries on historical writings. This article intends to bring this phenomenon to scholars' attention by providing a preliminary overview of the forms and subjects of such commentaries.... more
" The Rules of the Game, " expounded in ten remarkably bold theses, can easily be read as a synthetic retrospective or introduction to the formidable oeuvre of Arnaldo Momigliano. Indeed, this piece served as the opening chapter to his... more
This paper examines a facet in the long history of Italian Renaissance humanism: how later historians of philology understood Renaissance humanists. These later recon-siderations framed the legacies of Italian Renaissance humanism, at... more
Annotations about Arnaldo Momigliano's concept of historiography starting from the book The Legacy of Arnaldo Momigliano, edited by T. Cornell and O. Murray, The Warburg Institute, London-Turin 2014
According to Georg Picht, in opening his 1933 course on Horace, Felix Jacoby equated Hitler with Augustus. Arnaldo Momigliano accused Picht of lying to justify Heidegger’s adherence to Nazism. Starting from his testimony on Jacoby, whose... more
Il secondo volume della collana “Alle origini di Roma” prende in esame le ricerche di Massimo Pallottino, András Alföldi e Arnaldo Momigliano. Come per il primo volume, dedicato a quattro studiosi contemporanei che col loro lavoro hanno... more
History and philosophy in Collingwood, Strauss, Momigliano
The strong connection between Arnaldo Momigliano’s historical work and his Jewish cultural upbringing is today widely accepted, and not simply as regards his intellectual biography. The fact that the editors of the present volume have... more
The following chapter explores how the defence of History’s epistemological value was carried forward by some Italian theorists of the artis storicae (Robortello, Patrizi y Speroni) who were compromised with philosophical scepticism in... more
The book focuses attention on the reception of Thucydides in XIX Century Germany and first-half-XX Century Italy, when and where Historicism culminated, and examines some major historians and classical scholars of this age, that is the... more
The essay deals with a specic issue of the brief epistolary exchange between Federico Chabod and Arnando Momigliano, when the two friends argued about a necrologio written by the latter for Carlo Antoni and to be published on the «Rivista... more
One of the greatest historians of the twentieth century, Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987) is known for his path-breaking studies of ancient Greek and Roman history. The encyclopedic knowledge of the ancient world that Momigliano brought to... more