1. Felipe Pigna was born on 29 May 1959 and is an Argentine historian and writer.
12 Facts About Felipe Pigna
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Felipe Pigna is a columnist, appears on radio programs, and contributes to newspapers and magazines such as Noticias, Veintitres and Todo es Historia.
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Felipe Pigna is the director of Caras y Caretas magazine.
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Felipe Pigna has served as a history adviser for TV networks such as HBO, People and Arts, Italy's RAI, and Spain's Antena 3.
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Felipe Pigna was a columnist of Historia Confidencial, an Argentine TV show.
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Felipe Pigna is a CEO and writes for the historically focused website El Historiador.
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Felipe Pigna is often seen in the media talking about historical subjects.
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Felipe Pigna is the host of Vida y Vuelta, a television program of historical documentaries and interviews.
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The works of Felipe Pigna are not aimed to the academic public, but to the masses.
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Felipe Pigna considers that events do not really repeat themselves exactly because circumstances change, but the consequences are likely to be broadly the same, such as wealth gaps leading to authoritarian governments.
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Historians Tulio Halperin Dongui and Luis Alberto Romero made strong criticism of Felipe Pigna's style, and refuse to consider his work as real history books even if Felipe Pigna is a professional historian.
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Felipe Pigna uses as a pretext that foreign works accept and acknowledge subjective views, and his aim was to make the history of Argentina easy to understand by all people.