Denis Mack Smith - Wikipedia Denis Mack Smith From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search 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] Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Bibliography 3.1 With others 4 References 5 Further reading Early life[edit] Denis Mack Smith was born in Hampstead (north London),[1][5] the son of tax inspector Wilfrid Mack Smith (1891–1975) and Altiora Edith Gauntlett (1888–1969), and was educated at St Paul's Cathedral Choir School and Haileybury College.[3] He earned a degree in History at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and following his graduation, he was a fellow there for the next 15 years (1947–62).[6] Career[edit] 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] He belonged to the post-World War II generation of Cambridge historians, many based at Peterhouse, who learned to appreciate the primacy of documentary evidence.[8] He was an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He received the Presidential Medal of Italy in 1984.[9][10] Though his work on Italian history has been criticized by Italian academics, including Rosario Romeo[11] and Renzo De Felice, since their first translations were published in the 1950s, Mack Smith remains the second best-selling author on Italian history after Indro Montanelli. Other Italian academics were outraged over Smith's refusal "to regard Italian fascism and the rise of Benito Mussolini as an aberration".[12] Smith contended that one of the causes of Italian fascism was the structural weaknesses that existed in the Italian political system, a lasting "legacy of the Risorgimento".[12] Bibliography[edit] Cavour and Garibaldi, 1860: A Study in Political Conflict, 1954. Garibaldi: A Great Life in Brief, 1956. Italy: A Modern History, 1958, revised 1969, completely revised and reprinted as Modern Italy: A Political History, 1997. A History of Sicily, with Moses Finley, in two volumes, Medieval Sicily 800-1713 and Modern Sicily after 1713, 1968; abridged and reprinted as the single volume A History of Sicily with Moses Finley and Christopher Duggan, 1986. The Making of Italy, 1796-1870, 1968 (editor), reprinted as The Making of Italy, 1796-1866, 1988. Great Lives Observed: Garibaldi, 1969 (editor). Victor Emanuel, Cavour and the Risorgimento, 1971. Vittorio Emanuele II, 1975. Mussolini's Roman Empire (Le guerre del Duce), 1976. Mussolini, 1981. ISBN 0394506944 Cavour, 1985. Il Risorgimento italiano. Storia e testi, 1987. Italy and Its Monarchy, 1989. ISBN 0300046618 Mazzini, 1994. ISBN 0300058845 La storia manipolata, 1998. With others[edit] Mack Smith, Denis, John Anthony Davis, and Paul Ginsborg. Society and Politics in the Age of the Risorgimento: Essays in Honour of Denis Mack Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0521526450 References[edit] ^ a b CARIOTI, ANTONIO. "Morto lo storico Denis Mack Smith L'Italia vista da un liberal inglese". ^ Grimes, William (2 August 2017). "Denis Mack Smith, Chronicler of Modern Italy, Dies at 97". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 August 2017. ^ a b "Denis Mack Smith obituary: Eminent historian of modern Italy who was a true populariser of his subject". The Guardian. 24 July 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2017. ^ web, Segretariato generale della Presidenza della Repubblica-Servizio sistemi informatici- reparto. "Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana". Quirinale. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 14 July 2017. ^ "MACK SMITH, Denis". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 2018 (online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required) ^ "Denis Mack Smith and the Third Italy," (book review), reviewed work: Italy and Its Monarchy by Denis Mack Smith, review by: Richard Bosworth, The International History Review, Vol. 12, No. 4, November 1990, p. 782 ^ Lucy Riall (1999), Kelly Boyd (ed.), Encyclopedia of Historians & Historical Writing, Vol. 2, M-Z, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, p. 751 ^ All Souls College at University of Oxford ^ "All Souls College Oxford". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. ^ "QuAndo Romeo stroncò Denis Mack Smith". Repubblica. 11 January 2001. ^ a b William Grimes, "Denis Mack Smith, Chronicler of Modern Italy, Dies at 97", The New York Times, 2 August 2017 Further reading[edit] Portraits of Denis Mack Smith at the National Portrait Gallery, London The Art of Denis Mack Smith, Jonathan Steinberg, London Review of Books, 23 May 1985 The Great Pretender, A J P Taylor, The New York Review of Books, 5 August 1976 Society and Politics in the Age of the Risorgimento: Essays in honour of Denis Mack Smith, John A. Davis & Paul Ginsborg (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 1991 ( ISBN 0521-365929) Works by or about Denis Mack Smith at Internet Archive v t e Winners of the Wolfson History Prize 1970s Michael Howard / Keith Thomas (1972) W. L. Warren / Frances Yates (1973) Moses Finley / Theodore Zeldin (1974) Frances Donaldson / Olwen Hufton (1975) Nikolaus Pevsner / Norman Stone (1976) Denis Mack Smith / Simon Schama (1977) Alistair Horne (1978) Richard Cobb / Quentin Skinner / Mary Soames (1979) 1980s Robert Evans / F. S. L. Lyons (1980) J. W. Burrow (1981) John McManners (1982) Martin Gilbert / Kenneth Rose (1983) Antonia Fraser / Maurice Keen (1984) Richard Davenport-Hines / John Grigg (1985) J. H. Elliott / Jonathan Israel (1986) Rees Davies / John Pemble (1987) Richard Evans / Paul Kennedy (1988) Richard A. Fletcher / Donald Cameron Watt (1989) 1990s Colin Platt (1990) John Bossy / Alan Bullock (1991) Linda Colley / Robert Skidelsky (1992) Robert Bartlett / Barbara Harvey (1993) Fiona MacCarthy / John C. G. Röhl (1994) H. C. G. 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