The Italian Society for Military History is a scientific society founded by Raimondo Luraghi, who served as its first president, in Rome on 14 December 1984. Its aim is promoting studies in the field of military history and organizing meetings, seminars, and any other cultural or scientific events related to the society's aim. The society periodically issues studies, newsletters, and bulletins. Its primary aim is historical research in collaboration with organisations, societies, and students. It also grants scholarships for university degrees. Other initiatives related to the pursuit of the society's aim can be accomplished or sponsored by proposal by external subjects.
Partners
The SISM is a society acknowledged by the Italian Defense Ministry. It cooperates with the Commissione Italiana di Storia Militare, constituted by a ministerial order on 21 November 1986, with the Centro interuniversitario di studi e ricerche storico-military, constituted by an agreement between universities of Turin, Padua and Pisa, and with the Society of Friends of the Italian Military Library, constituted in Varallo Sesia on 20 September 2008. SISM divulged in Italy the Bibliographer Internationale d'histoire militaire attended by the Bibliography Committee of the Commission international d'histoire militaire. SISM collaborated with CISM in organizing the 18th and 19th International Conference of the Commission Internationale d'Histoire Militaire, which took place in Turin in the years 1992 and 2013.
Honorary presidents
Prof. Raimondo Luraghi
Prof. Mariano Gabriele
Presidents
Prof. Raimondo Luraghi
Gen. Filippo Stefani
Prof. Massimo Mazzetti
Prof. Massimo Mazzetti
Prof. Antonello Folco Maria Biagini
Gen. Pierpaolo Meccariello
Prof. Giuseppe Conti
Prof. Virgilio Ilari
Gen. Pierpaolo Meccariello
Prof. Mariano Gabriele
Prof. Virgilio Ilari
General Managers
Michele Nones
Giuseppe Conti
Piero Crociani
Ciro Paoletti
Flavio Carbone
Nicola Pignato
Annamaria Isastia
Publications
Books
Teaching of military history in Italy ', Acta of seminary held in Rome on 4 December 1987, Roma, Compagnia dei Librai, 1989.
The Italian Army, history of men and armaments, Roma, Italia, 1988
Italian in the Russian Campaign of 1812 Gli italiani nella campagna di Russia del 1812. Acta of the meeting held in Cassino and also Rome on October 2012.
In collaboration with CIRSM
Italian military historiography in the last twenty years, edited by Giorgio Rochat and Piero Del Negro, Milano, Angeli, 1985
Italian bibliography about history and military studies 1960–1984, edited by Giorgio Rochat, Piero Del Negro and Filippo Frassati, Milano, F. Angeli, 1987.
Handbook on Italian military history (Guida alla storia militare italiana, edited by Piero Del Negro, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli, 1997
Catalogue of Italian students of military history 2005 (Repertorio degli studiosi italiani di storia militare 2005, edited by Gian Luca Balestra and Nicola Labanca, Milano, Edizioni UNICOPLI, 2005
The fonts for the Italian military history in the Contemporary Age, Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities – Central department for archival resources, Roma, 1993.
In collaboration with CISM
Acta of the 2nd National meeting on military history held in Rome at CASD 28–20 October 1999, Italian committee on Military History, Roma, 2001
1993, Roma, GEI Gruppo Editoriale Internazionale, 1994. from Scribd
1994, Roma, GEI Gruppo Editoriale Internazionale, 1995.
1995, Roma, GEI Gruppo Editoriale Internazionale, 1997.
1996–1997 National identity of the Armed Forces. Acta of the 4th meeting of Sism in Caserta, edited by Fortunato Minniti, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli, 2001.