November 23rd: 100 years since the birth of Ruggiero Romano (1923-2002)

Educated in the school of Federico Chabod and Delio Cantimori, Ruggiero Romano moved to France in 1947, where he taught at the Sorbonne.

He then held the chair of Problems and Methods in Economic History at the École Pratique des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where he conducted research in the field of economic, social and cultural history from the Renaissance to the 19th century.

Romano was the Italian scholar who most closely experienced the École des Annales, the prestigious French historiography movement that grew up around the journal of the same name. With his gaze fixed on economic structures, Romano has accumulated a very rich production over the years.

Luigi Einaudi Foundation holds 88 titles featuring the distinguished historian as author or editor and 10 monographs dealing with his biography and activities.

The Foundation also preserves archival and bibliographical material that belonged to the scholar: an archive collection (correspondence, notes and working documents between 1962 and 1993) and around 3,000 monographs from the library of his last Parisian residence.