Roberto de Mattei
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Roberto de Mattei is an Italian Roman Catholic historian
and author.
at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Cassino and is currently Professor of Modern History
and History of Christianity
at the European University in Rome
, where he is also Coordinator of the Degree Course in Historical Sciences.
He is vice-President of the National Research Council of Italy (since 2004). As a vice-President he has been higly criticized for his anti-scientific ideas, in particular for having organized and funded a meeting supporting antievolutionism. This fact led part of the italian scientific community to a request for his resignation. The controversy upsurged again after some statements by de Mattei, e.g. that the tsunami in 2011 in Japan was a divine punishment. Furthermore he claimed gay people to be responsible for the fall of the Roman Empire.
He is member of the Board of Directors of the “Italian Historical Institute for the Modern and Contemporary Age” and of the "Italian Geographic Society". He is President of the Lepanto Foundation (Rome - Washington) and he is editor-in-chief of the monthly review “Radici Cristiane”, of the three-monthly historical review “Nova Historica” as well as of the weekly “Corrispondenza Romana”. From February
2002 to May
2006 he held the post of Adviser for International Affairs to the Italian Government. He furthermore cooperates with the Pontifical Council for Historical Sciences and has been awarded from the Holy See the Order of Knighthood of St. Gregory the Great, as acknowledgement to this service to the Church. Among his most recent publications, there is the history of the Vatican Council II (Il Concilio Vaticano II. Una storia mai scritta, Lindau, Turin 2010) wherein, without touching onto the theological debate on the hermeneutics of the Council, suggests an historical view on the event which is antithetical to that proposed by the School of Bologna
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Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
and author.
Biography
Former student and assistant to the philosopher of politics Augusto del Noce and to the historian Armando Saitta at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the Sapienza University of Rome, he has extensively studied European history of the 16th and 20th Century with particular focus on the history of religious and political ideas. Among other academic posts, he was Professor of Modern HistoryModern history
Modern history, or the modern era, describes the historical timeline after the Middle Ages. Modern history can be further broken down into the early modern period and the late modern period after the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution...
at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Cassino and is currently Professor of Modern History
Modern history
Modern history, or the modern era, describes the historical timeline after the Middle Ages. Modern history can be further broken down into the early modern period and the late modern period after the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution...
and History of Christianity
History of Christianity
The history of Christianity concerns the Christian religion, its followers and the Church with its various denominations, from the first century to the present. Christianity was founded in the 1st century by the followers of Jesus of Nazareth who they believed to be the Christ or chosen one of God...
at the European University in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, where he is also Coordinator of the Degree Course in Historical Sciences.
He is vice-President of the National Research Council of Italy (since 2004). As a vice-President he has been higly criticized for his anti-scientific ideas, in particular for having organized and funded a meeting supporting antievolutionism. This fact led part of the italian scientific community to a request for his resignation. The controversy upsurged again after some statements by de Mattei, e.g. that the tsunami in 2011 in Japan was a divine punishment. Furthermore he claimed gay people to be responsible for the fall of the Roman Empire.
He is member of the Board of Directors of the “Italian Historical Institute for the Modern and Contemporary Age” and of the "Italian Geographic Society". He is President of the Lepanto Foundation (Rome - Washington) and he is editor-in-chief of the monthly review “Radici Cristiane”, of the three-monthly historical review “Nova Historica” as well as of the weekly “Corrispondenza Romana”. From February
February
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2002 to May
May
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2006 he held the post of Adviser for International Affairs to the Italian Government. He furthermore cooperates with the Pontifical Council for Historical Sciences and has been awarded from the Holy See the Order of Knighthood of St. Gregory the Great, as acknowledgement to this service to the Church. Among his most recent publications, there is the history of the Vatican Council II (Il Concilio Vaticano II. Una storia mai scritta, Lindau, Turin 2010) wherein, without touching onto the theological debate on the hermeneutics of the Council, suggests an historical view on the event which is antithetical to that proposed by the School of Bologna
Bologna School (history)
The Bologna School is a historical school of ecclesiastical history, specializing in the history of the Second Vatican Council, and largely supportive of the so-called hermeneutic of rupture, creating a pre-Conciliar and post-Conciliar period...
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Author
- 1900-2000 - Due sogni si succedono: la costruzione la distruzione, Roma, Fiducia, 1988.
- Il crociato del secolo XX. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Milano, Piemme, 1996.
- Alta Ruet Babylon. L'Europa settaria del Cinquecento. Lineamenti storici e problemi ecclesiologici, Milano, Istituto di Propaganda Libraria, 1997. ISBN 88-7836-429-0
- A sinistra di Lutero. Sette e movimenti religiosi nell'Europa del '500, Roma, Città Nuova, 1999. ISBN 88-311-0326-1
- Pio IX, Milan, Piemme, 2000. ISBN 88-384-4893-0; translated in Portuguese ( 2000) and in English (2003).
- La souveraineté nécessaire. Réflexions sur la déconstruction de l’Etat et ses conséquences pour la société; Editions François-Xavier de Guibert, Paris 2000 (Prix Renaissance 2001) ; Translated in Italian (2001).
- Guerra santa guerra giusta. Islam e Cristianesimo in guerra, Milano, Piemme, 2002. ISBN 88-384-6980-6; translated in Portuguese (2002) and in English (2007)
- L'identità culturale come progetto di ricerca, Roma, Liberal Edizioni, 2004.
- La “Biblioteca dell’amicizia”. Repertorio critico della cultura cattolica nell’epoca della Rivoluzione 1770-1830, Bibliopolis, Naples 2005. ISBN 88-7088-487-2
- De Europa. Tra radici cristiane e sogni postmoderni, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2006. ISBN 88-6087-002-X
- Il CNR e le Scienze Umane. Una strategia di rilancio, Roma, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 2008. ISBN 88-89756-26-8
- La dittatura del relativismo, Chieti, Solfanelli, 2007. ISBN 88-89756-26-8; translated in Portuguese ( 2008 ), in Polish (2009) and in French (2011).
- La liturgia della Chiesa nell’epoca della secolarizzazione, Solfanelli, Rome 2009.
- La Turchia in Europa. Beneficio o catastrofe?, Sugarco Edizioni, Milan 2009; translated in English ( 2009), in German ( 2010) and in Polish (2010)
- Il Concilio Vaticano II. Una storia mai scritta, Torino, Lindau, 2010. ISBN 88-7180-894-0