Norberto Bobbio was an Italian philosopher of law and political sciences and a historian of political thought.
18 Facts About Norberto Bobbio
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Norberto Bobbio wrote regularly for the Turin-based daily La Stampa.
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Norberto Bobbio was strongly influenced by Hans Kelsen and Vilfredo Pareto.
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Norberto Bobbio was born in Turin on October 18,1909 to Luigi and Rosa Caviglia.
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The middle-class status of his family allowed Norberto Bobbio to have a comfortable childhood.
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Norberto Bobbio wrote verses and loved Bach and Verdi's opera La traviata.
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Norberto Bobbio studied at the Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio, where he met Leone Ginzburg, Cesare Pavese, and Vittorio Foa, who would all become major figures in the culture of the Italian Republic.
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From 1928, like many other youth in the era, Norberto Bobbio registered with the National Fascist Party.
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In high school Norberto Bobbio met Vittorio Foa, Leone Ginzburg and Cesare Pavese, and at the university he became a friend of Alessandro Galante Garrone.
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In 1942, under the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini and during World War II, Norberto Bobbio joined the Partito d'Azione, illegal at the time, and was imprisoned in 1943 and 1944.
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Norberto Bobbio was a candidate in the 1946 Constituent Assembly of Italy elections, but failed to win a seat.
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Norberto Bobbio was one of the major exponents of left-right political distinctions, arguing that the Left believes in attempting to eradicate social inequality, while the Right regards most social inequality as the result of ineradicable natural inequalities, and sees attempts to enforce social equality as utopian or authoritarian.
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Norberto Bobbio was a strong partisan of the Historic Compromise between the Italian Communist Party and the Christian Democrats, and a fierce critic of Silvio Berlusconi.
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Norberto Bobbio died in Turin, the same city in which he was born and lived most of his life.
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Norberto Bobbio studied philosophy of law with Gioele Solari; he later taught this subject in Camerino, Siena, Padua, and ultimately back in Turin as Solari's successor in 1948; from 1972 to 1984, he was a professor of political science in Turin.
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Norberto Bobbio was a National Associate of the Lincean Academy and longtime co-director of the Rivista di Filosofia.
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Norberto Bobbio became a Corresponding Associate of the British Academy in 1966; in 1979 he was nominated as Senator-for-life by Italian President Sandro Pertini.
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Norberto Bobbio received, among others, doctorates honoris causa from the Universities of Paris, Madrid, Bologna, Chambery, Madrid, Sassari, Camerino, Madrid, and Buenos Aires.