Lorenzo Arnone Sipari


Lorenzo Arnone Sipari is an Italian nature writer and historian, author of many studies on the social and environmental history, especially on the origins and foundation of Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo.

Biography

He was born in Rome. He graduated at University of Cassino, with whom he published historical essays, particularly on the issues of the middle class of southern Italy between the 19th and 20th centuries and on the birth and development of the Rotary Club of Frosinone, Fiuggi and Cassino.
Since 1998 he conducts historical research on the nature conservation in Italy, publishing essays on the Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo. On this issue, in 2011 he brought together in a volume the main articles, reports and letters of Erminio Sipari, member of the Parliament and also founder and first president of the first Italian Park. In 2007 he discovered that Giovanni Paolo Mattia Castrucci, a 17th-century historian of the duchy of Alvito author of the book "Descrittione del ducato di Alvito", reprinted several times, was a fictional character.
An important part of his research has been devoted to the life and work of Benedetto Croce, with particular reference to its background and to its historical methodology.. He's the conservator of the Sipari family archive, which was declared of significant historical importance by Italian state.

Main Works

Social history