Francesco Cesare Casula | |
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Born | Livorno, Kingdom of Italy | 12 September 1933
Other names | Frantziscu Tzèsare Casula |
Alma mater | University of Cagliari University of Palermo |
Occupation(s) | historian and academic |
Employers |
Francesco Cesare Casula (born 12 September 1933) is a Sardinian historian from Italy.
Born in Livorno, Casula lived there until 1949 when, because of his father's death caused by an Allied bombardment of the city, his entire family moved to Cabras. While living there, he continued his studies at the De Castro high school of Oristano.
A pupil of Ovidio Addis and Alberto Boscolo, he graduated in literature in Cagliari in 1959, immediately starting a university career and subsequently specializing in Languages at the University of Palermo.
In 1969 he obtained the Libera Docenza in Paleography and Diplomatics, and started teaching History of Sardinia at the University of Sassari during that same year.
Since 1980 and until 2008 he has been full professor of Medieval History in the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy of the University of Cagliari. During that same time period he also held the position of Director of the Institute on Italo-Iberian relations and of the Institute of the History of Mediterranean Europe of the National Research Council (CNR), based in Cagliari and with sections in Genoa, Turin and Milan.
Member of the National History Deputation, for ten years he was a member of the board of directors of the Society of Italian Historians and of the Permanent Commission for the History of the Aragon Crown.
From 1985 to 1992 he has been cultural advisor to the President of the Italian Republic Francesco Cossiga, [1] and during those same years he took part in diplomatic missions in Romania, US, Spain and other countries. [2]
From 2001 to 2006 he was a member of the Technical Secretariat for Research Planning at the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) headed by Minister Letizia Moratti.
He is the author of important works of notable scientific interest in Paleography and about the history of Sardinia, and during his years of historical research he has developed the so-called "doctrine of statehood", which revisits Sardinian history by denouncing the approximation with which, in his opinion, historians of the past, such as Zurita or Fara, have handed down the historical judgment on the events that took place on the Island; [3] he is considered one of the most important medievalists in Italy. [1]
During his long academic career he has been the author of numerous writings which, according to the list made by Francesco Floris, [4] make up a bibliography with 76 main titles:
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Corrado Malaspina, was an Italian nobleman and landowner.
John Moulton Day was an American historian.
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