Santo Mazzarino

Santo Mazzarino
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Santo Mazzarino (1916–1987) was an Italian historian, considered a leading 20th-century historian of ancient Rome. He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei.

As a scholar and faculty member of the University of Rome La Sapienza, Mazzarino was viewed as one of Italy's leading historians. His influential book La fine del mondo antico (1959) examined the death of Rome as a result of decadence. The book was widely read among non-specialists as well, and has been translated into several languages. However, Mazzarino's primary historical contributions were published only in Italian and have not yet been translated, covering subjects such as the 4th century economy, classical historiography, and various aspects of the Roman Empire.

As a Marxist, he blamed the same decadence for the woes of the modern world.

At present (2007), his main and fundamental works are being newly issued by Bollati Boringhieri, a renowned Italian scientific publisher in Turin.

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Stilicone: La Crisi Imperiale dopo Teodosio (1942) (now: Rizzoli ISBN 9788817336161)
Dalla monarchia allo Stato repubblicano. Ricerche di storia romana arcaica, 1945 (now: Rizzoli, Milano, 2001 ISBN 9788817336277)
Fra Oriente e Occidente. Ricerche di storia greca arcaica (1947).

(now: Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2007 ISBN 9788833917641)

Aspetti sociali del IV secolo: ricerche di storia tardo-romana. L'Erma di Bretschneider, Roma, 1951 (now: Rizzoli, 2002, ISBN 9788817128056)
L'impero romano, 1956. (now: Laterza, Bari, I Vol., 2004, ISBN 9788842023777 - II Vol. 2003, ISBN 9788842024019)
Introduzione alle guerre puniche. Rizzoli, 2003, ISBN 9788817101042
La fine del mondo antico. Le cause della caduta dell'impero romano (1959) (now: Rizzoli, 2002, ISBN 9788817100465)
- (English translation by George Holmes as The end of the ancient world. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1966, (West Hanover : Halliday Lithograph corp.)
Il pensiero storico classico (3 voll., 1965-66) (now: Laterza, 1997-2000 ISBN 9788842022626, ISBN 9788842022817, ISBN 9788842022831)
Il basso impero. Antico, tardoantico ed era costantiniana. 2 volumi, Dedalo, Bari, 1974-1980 (II edizione 2003, 2 Vol., ISBN 9788822005137, ISBN 9788822005144)
Storia sociale del Vescovo Ambrogio. Roma, L'Erma di Bretschneider, 1989 ISBN 9788870626643
(co-author: Giulio Giannelli). Trattato di storia romana. Roma, Tumminelli, 1962
Vico, l'annalistica e il diritto, Guida, Napoli, 1971 ISBN 9788870424669
Storia romana e storiografia moderna. Napoli, Conte, 1954
Serena e le due Eudossie. Roma, Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani, 1946 ISBN 9788873112211

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