Neofascism in Europe (1945–1989): A Long Cultural Journey

Matteo Albanese is Professor of History of political parties and movements at the University of Padua. He is a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences in Lisbon, after defending his doctoral thesis at the European University Institute. He has been a visiting scholar at Sciences-po, Paris and at the New School for Social Research in New York. He is the author of essays on political violence and extremism in Italy and abroad.

Among his publications we mention: Tondini di ferro e bossoli di piombo; una storia sociale delle brigate rosse (Iron rods and lead cases, a social history of the red brigades) (Pacini 2020) and Transnational Fascism in the Twentieth Century: Spain, Italy, and the Global Neo-Fascist Network (Bloomsbury, 2016). He won the ERICS prize from Portuguese academy for this book. Most recently he also published: The Italian fascist community in Argentina. 1946–1978, European History Quarterly, Sage, Newbury Park, California, n 2/2020

Recently he was the author of a small volume on the death of Aldo Moro at the hands of the Brs published by Corriere della Sera.