Claudio Pavone, an Italian Partisan and State archivist for many years, held an associate professorship in Contemporary History at the University of Pisa. His research has focused on the formation of a United Italy from an institutional and administrative viewpoint, the history of Italy’s institutions and on the Fascism-War-Resistance triangle. His publications include A Civil War (Turin 1991), The Origins of the Republic (Turin 1995), Of Archives and Institutions. Writings by Claudio Pavone (edited by I. Zanni Rosiello, Rome 2004), On Civil War. The two accounts of the Resistance (with N. Bobbio, Turin 2015), My Resistance. Memories of youth (Rome 2015). For Laterza, among other things, he wrote Masterclass on Contemporary History (2007).