Matteo Pizzigallo

Matteo Pizzigallo (Martina Franca 17 July 1950 – Rome 19 July 2018) was an Italian essayist and historian. He attended La Sapienza University in Rome and graduated in 1972.

Biography He was a pupil of Renato Mori, famous historian of the Ethiopia war. He was also in the group of the assistant professors of Aldo Moro, the Italian statesman, killed by the Brigate Rosse and that remembered him and the other young colleagues in his last letters written when he was imprisoned. He was full professor of History of Political Parties and Movements, and also of History of International Relations at the University of Naples “Federico II”, at the Accademia Aeronautica of Pozzuoli and at LUMSA University of Rome. Scholar of Economic Diplomacy and Euro-Arab relations, he was the author of several monographs and essays translated also in English and Arabic. He dealt with the Italian foreign policy, with the Italian oil policy in the 1920s and after the Second World War. He dealt with the Italian relations with the countries of the southern shore of the Mediterranean supporting the diplomacy of “friendship”. He was a commentator on RAI TG1-Unomattina, Rai Parlamento, Radio Vaticana and La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno. He was a founding member of the Italian Society of International History (SISI).