Ferdinando Scala | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | May 24, 1969 Portici (Italy) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Nunziatella Military School University of Naples Federico II |
| Academic work | |
| Era | XX-XXI century |
| Main interests | military historian,History of warfare,World War I,Fascism |
| Notable works | Il generale Armando Tallarigo I Generali italiani della Grande Guerra |
Ferdinando Scala (born May 24,1969) is an Italian biologist,science and technology journalist and historian [1] ,specialized in strategy and military history.
Born in Portici,he spent his first year of life in Foggia,where his father was servicing as a warrant officer of the Italian Air Force,and then he moved to San Giorgio a Cremano,that he then always considered his hometown. Here he frequented elementary and middle school,and then he spent the first two years of high school at Liceo Classico Statale "Quinto Orazio Flacco" of Portici.
A cadet of the class 1984–87 of Nunziatella Military School of Naples,he studied together with Antonio Mele, [2] Marco Mattiucci, [2] Valerio Gildoni, [3] [4] [5] Antonio De Crescentiis, [3] and Bepi Pezzulli. [6] Admitted at Military Academy of Modena as an Officer cadet of 169ºclass,he resigned and enrolled as a student of biological sciences of the University of Naples Federico II.
Graduated summa cum laude in March 1995,he spent one year of research work at CNR-ISPAIM institute of Ercolano,then in January 1997 he won a yearly research fellowship and he was assigned to the Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionelle et Evolutive,a CNRS institute of Montpellier. [7] In this period,he performed research activity in the field of satellite and airborne remote sensing applications to environmental monitoring [8] in collaboration with the Joint Research Center of the European Commission and DLR. He further collaborated with European Space Agency to the ENVISAT mission,and finally he participated as author to the Italian National Communication to Fight Desertification in the UNCCD framework. [9]
Having abandoned his scientific career,in 1998 he moved to the pharmaceutical industry,where he held positions in Italy and abroad in marketing &sales for Abbott, [10] Menarini, [11] Takeda, [12] Serono, [13] Bristol-Myers Squibb, [14] Allergan,and living between Florence, [15] Rome [12] and Dublin. [16]
In 2010 he moved to management consulting in Publicis Groupe,also in the pharmaceutical sector,working at global level for Healthware International as Strategy Director. [17] [18] [19] In this assignment,he specialized in international pharmaceutical marketing, [20] [21] digital marketing, [22] design thinking [23] business games,innovation management,change management [24] and digital health, [25] also serving as judge at Digital Health Awards. [26] He also specializes in Patient Advocacy Groups relationships, [27] being a founding member of World Psoriasis Day,European Patient Digital Health Awards and collaborating scientist for European Cancer Patient Coalition. [28] [29]
Between 2013 and 2023 he has been teaching Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management at Alma Laboris Business School in Rome [30] and since 2017 he is a Faculty member at Digital Health Academy. [31] Between 2016 and 2020,he served as a board member of Select Milano, [32] [33] [34] a conservative think-tank and business diplomacy initiative, [35] [36] [37] with the mission to foster bilateral relations with the City of London after Brexit. [38] [39] [40] [41] In 2020 he started working as a contributor to the science,information security and technology magazine Infosec.news,founded by Umberto Rapetto [42] and he qualified as a journalist on September 22,2022. [43] His main interests are military, [44] spaceflight, [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] technology, [51] [52] [53] geopolitics [54] [55] [56] and artificial intelligence applications in healthcare. [57] [58]
In August 2024,he was appointed Head of Communication and Culture of the Nunziatella Alumni National Association and Editor-in-Chief of Rosso Maniero (Red Manor),the official journal of the Association. [59] [60] [61] [62]
He began publishing in the field of military history in 2016,making a monographic contribution to the history of the Nunziatella after discovering the lack of a name on the war memorial of the academy inaugurated in 1920. [63] [64] In 2018,after five years of research,he published a biographical volume on General Armando Tallarigo,commander first of the 152nd Infantry Regiment and then of the Sassari Brigade during the First World War. In this work,presented at the International Festival èStoria in Gorizia, [65] he brought back to historical reality the events narrated by Emilio Lussu in the volume Un anno sull'altipiano (One year on the High Plateau),and then taken up again in fictional form by Francesco Rosi in the movie Many Wars Ago (Uomini contro). [66] [67]
In 2019 he published with historians Paolo Gaspari and Paolo Pozzato the encyclopedic volume The Italian Generals of Great War,C-Z (I generali italiani della Grande guerra,C-Z),an important contribution to the historiography of the First World War on the Italian Front,published in collaboration with the Historical Office of the General Staff of the Italian Army. [68] [69] The following year,he participated in the book The Civil Religion of a People (La religione civile di un popolo), [70] dedicated to re-evaluating Italy's contribution to the Great War through the monuments that commemorate the fallen and to reinterpreting the First World War as a fundamental moment in the construction of the Italian nation. The book attracted significant attention from the press and the RAI national television. [71] [72] [73]
In 2023,he published “Leaders and Their Moral Preparation for the Function of Command”(I Capi e la loro preparazione morale alla funzione del comando) a work on leadership ethics resulting from the comparison and modernization of the three editions of the book of the same name by Armando Tallarigo,first published in 1930. In it,he revisited the original author’s message,focused on the moral and material responsibility of military commanders and civilian leaders towards their subordinates,and translated it into a contemporary form,useful for modern leaders. [74] [75]
Since 2020 he has been a member of the Italian Society for Military History and his current research interests are focused on the history of Nunziatella, [76] the history of the Carabinieri and the relationship between military hierarchies and Italian Fascism.
"Suona la tromba" or Inno popolare is a secular hymn composed by Giuseppe Verdi in 1848 to a text by the Italian poet and patriot Goffredo Mameli. The work's title comes from the opening line of Mameli's poem. It has sometimes been referred to as "Grido di guerra".
Giuseppe Saverio Poli was an Italian physicist, biologist and natural historian.
Luciano Catenacci was an Italian actor and production manager who worked on mainly Italian produced films during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
The Committee of National Liberation for Northern Italy was set up in February 1944 by partisans behind German lines in the Italian Social Republic, a German puppet state in Northern Italy. It enjoyed the loyalty of most anti-fascist groups in the region.
Andrea Petagna is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Monza. He has also previously represented the Italy national team.
Bepi Pezzulli is a British-Italian business lawyer, corporate executive, columnist, and writer. He is an expert in finance, especially in capital markets, investment management and M&A. He is also a foreign policy adviser, with a focus on Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States, and – specifically – a Brexit pundit.
Alessandro Casati was an Italian academic, commentator and politician. He served as a senator between 1923 and 1924 and again between 1948 and 1953. He also held ministerial office, most recently as Minister of War for slightly more than twelve months during 1944/45, serving under "Presidente del Consiglio" Bonomi.
Marco Mattiucci was a member of the Italian National Fire Department, and a recipient of the gold medal for civil valor.
Valerio Gildoni was an Italian military officer, colonel of the Carabinieri and a recipient of the gold medal of military valor.
Antonio De Crescentiis is an Italian politician who served as President of the Province of L'Aquila.
Monte Cianea is a 1,226-metre (4,022 ft) mountain of the Ligurian Prealps, in Italy.
The Polo del '900 is a cultural centre of Turin, that hosts the seats of 26 partner institutions. The centre is housed in the so-called Quartieri Militari of the Quadrilatero Romano, a juvarrian compound, in the Palazzi San Celso and San Daniele, built on the design of Filippo Juvarra, which house the library, the archive, the areas for events, exhibitions and performances, classrooms and the permanent exhibitions of the Museo diffuso della Resistenza, della deportazione, della guerra, dei diritti e della libertà.
The Italian Generals of the Great War, C-Z is an essay published by historians Paolo Gaspari, Paolo Pozzato and Ferdinando Scala in 2019, with an introduction by historian Filippo Cappellano and published in collaboration with the History Office of the Italian Army. It is the second volume of an encyclopedic series dedicated to the biographies of over six hundred Italian general officers who fought in the Great War on the Italian front and abroad, and concludes the work begun in 2011 with the publication of The Italian Generals of the Great War, A-B.
Mario Ajmone Cat was an Italian Air Force general during World War II. He was Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force from 1944 to 1951.
One Year on the High Plateau is a historical novel by Emilio Lussu: set on the Asiago plateau, it is one of the major works of Italian literature on the First World War. The novel was written between 1936 and 1937 and tells, for the first time in Italian literature, the irrationality and senselessness of war, hierarchy and exasperated military discipline in use at the time. For a long time considered a faithful chronicle of the events dating back to the period spent by Lussu as an officer of the Sassari Brigade, it has subsequently been the subject of a substantial historiographic criticism, which has strongly reduced the value of the chronicle of real events, leading it to the role of historical novel.
Ugo Pio Enrico Natale Brusati, was an Italian General who participated in the First Italo-Ethiopian War and World War I. He gained notability for his service at the Battle of Adwa as well as being the First Adjudant General of Vittorio Emanuele III on 2 June 1902 until 23 October 1917, when Luigi Cadorna forced him out of the office.
Edoardo Bianchini was an Italian captain of the First Italo-Ethiopian War. He commanded the 3rd Mountain Artillery Battery during the Battle of Adwa before being killed at the battle. He was also a posthumous recipient of the Gold Medal of Military Valor for his service at the battle.
Alfeo Brandimarte was an Italian naval officer and Resistance member during World War II.
Ferdinando Beneventano del Bosco was a Two Sicilian Brigadier General of the Army of the Two Sicilies. He was one of the few charismatic figures during the Expedition of the Thousand and a primary figure of Two Sicilian resistance against the Sardinian forces.
Luigi Mezzacapo was an Italian general, patriot and politician.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
Definitions from Wiktionary
Media from Commons
News from Wikinews
Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Academics | |
