id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-610 Denis Mack Smith - Wikipedia .html text/html 1450 196 70 Denis Mack Smith CBE FBA FRSL (3 March 1920 – 11 July 2017)[1] was an English historian who specialized in the history of Italy from the Risorgimento onwards. He is best known for his biographies of Garibaldi, Cavour and Mussolini, and for his single-volume Modern Italy: A Political History.[2][3] He was named Grand Official of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1996.[4] An Emeritus Fellow at All Souls College at the University of Oxford from 1987 until his death, Mack Smith has been considered the world's leading scholar on Italian history for the English world.[7] Mack Smith, Denis, John Anthony Davis, and Paul Ginsborg. ^ a b William Grimes, "Denis Mack Smith, Chronicler of Modern Italy, Dies at 97", The New York Times, 2 August 2017 Society and Politics in the Age of the Risorgimento: Essays in honour of Denis Mack Smith, John A. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-610.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-610.txt