Background
Luraghi, Raimondo was born on August 16, 1921 in Milan. Son of Nino and Giuseppina (Colciago) Luraghi.
University of Rome, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Raimondo Luraghi attended the University of Rome and became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1958.
University of Torino, Torino, Piemonte, Italy
Raimondo Luraghi enrolled in the Faculty of the Humanities of the University of Torino in 1940. Raimondo Luraghi received a master’s degree in 1946.
Liceo-Ginnasio Cavour, Torino, Piemonte, Italy
Raimondo Luraghi completed the eight-year elite humanities course of study in five years and graduated from Liceo-Ginnasio Cavour in Torino.
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A History of the Confederate Navy discusses the various influences on the Confederate decision to organize a navy, and the administration of their sea fighters, including chronologies and personal profiles.
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1996
(The product of over thirty years of research on the Ameri...)
The product of over thirty years of research on the American Civil War by Italy’s most renowned authority on the subject, this study synthetically analyzes the great drama that from 1861 to 1865 devastated the United States and gave life to the modern American nation. The book also highlights how the Civil War was the first conflict of the industrial age and an often neglected premonition of the two great world wars that shook the world in the twentieth century. The short essays presented here are the texts of five lectures delivered several years ago at the Istituto Italiano di Studi Filosofici in Naples and published in Italy in 1997.
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Luraghi, Raimondo was born on August 16, 1921 in Milan. Son of Nino and Giuseppina (Colciago) Luraghi.
Luraghi completed the eight-year elite humanities course of study in five years, graduated from Liceo-Ginnasio Cavour in Torino, and enrolled in the Faculty of the Humanities of the University of Torino in 1940. Raimondo Luraghi received a master’s degree in 1946. He then attended the University of Rome and became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1958.
Early in 1941, the Fascist Italian government compelled Luraghi and all men of his generation to join the army. He served briefly as an enlisted soldier combating British commando raids, then joined the officer training school in Fano. Promoted to lieutenant, he served with the Frontier Guard patrolling the border with France, and he rose to command a small garrison in the mountains at Madonne des Fenetres. There Luraghi became disenchanted with Fascism and his Fascist war. So he joined the resistance, Giustiza e Liberta, in Torino and ultimately the 4th Garibaldi Brigade, in which he rose to command a ranger battalion. Wounded in action on July 29, 1944, Luraghi earned a silver medal for bravery. He endured capture, threatened execution, and a heroic, harrowing escape from the Nazis. He left the Italian army in October 1945.
In 1958, the publisher Einaudi issued Luraghi’s first book, a study of Italian opposition to the Fascist regime in Torino, Il Movimento Operaio Torinese durante la Resistenza.
Luraghi first traveled to the United States in 1963 to attend a Harvard International Seminar directed by Henry Kissinger. Fulbright grants enabled Luraghi’s research in the American South and led to the 1966 publication of Storia della Guerra Civile Americana, which won significant awards, at least ten reprints, and David Donald’s judgment as “the best one-volume history of the American Civil War.” And he wrote a history of the United States, Gli Stati Uniti. A series of visiting professorships followed, at the Universities of Richmond, Notre Dame, Indiana, Georgia, and Toronto.
In Italy, Luraghi established himself at the University of Genoa, and from 1964 he rose to become a full professor of American history, the first person ever to hold a chair in American history in Italy. He created a veritable empire for himself and legions of his students. He was the principal evangelist for southern American history in Italy and perhaps all of Europe.
Luraghi conducted tireless original research in primary sources. He relied upon his personal experience in war and native brilliance and often reached startling insights. To cite only one example, he became enormously impressed with the capacity of the nineteenth-century American South to shed agrarian shackles and create an all but instant war industry. Only one nation, Luraghi posited, had ever rivaled the industrial expansion of the Confederate South.
(The product of over thirty years of research on the Ameri...)
(A History of the Confederate Navy discusses the various i...)
1996
Raimondo Luraghi m arried Germana Cunioli on June 24, 1950. They had two children: Silvia and Nino.