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Vittorio Fiorini
1860–1925
A historian of Italy’s past and a public servant in its schools, he helped bring major historical texts and the story of the Risorgimento to a wider readership. His work linked medieval and modern Italy in a way that made national history feel continuous and alive.
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About the author
Born in Piacenza in 1860 and later active in Bologna, Vittorio Fiorini was an Italian historian best known for his work on the Risorgimento and for helping shape the study of Italian history as a connected whole, from the Middle Ages to national unification.
He studied at the Istituto di Studi Superiori in Florence under Pasquale Villari and went on to teach before serving in Italy’s Ministry of Public Instruction. Over time he held senior roles including central inspector and director general of secondary education, and he was also named a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei.
Fiorini is especially remembered for directing the Biblioteca storica del Risorgimento italiano with Tommaso Casini and for working with Giosuè Carducci on the new edition of Muratori’s Rerum Italicarum Scriptores. He died in Bologna in 1925.