Special Collections

Enzo Santarelli

1. GENERAL INFORMATION

1.1 Library  

Biblioteca Umanistica, Università degli Studi di Urbino

1.2 Nome del fondo  

Enzo Santarelli

1.3 Biographical notes 

Enzo Santarelli (Ancona, January 12, 1922 – Rome, October 3, 2004) was a student at of Political Sciences at the University of Florence. After sharing the illusions of the “left-wing fascism” for a brief period of time, he developed anti-fascist sentiments since 1942. During the WWII he joined the Italian Liberal Party, of which became a representative of the Marche region in the National Liberation Committee. After the electoral defeat in April 1948, he joined the Italian Communist Party. In 1956, he was appointed secretary of the Ancona Federation. Two years later, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, where he remained until 1963, holding various institutional positions.

His career as a historian began with a collaboration with the magazine "Movimento operaio”, a crossroads for intellectuals bound to a history of class but not aligned with the party. His interests span from the study of political currents in the Marche region between the Unification of Italy and the advent of fascism and the history of the anarchist movement as an original component of the workers' movement. Santarelli, as a communist historian, looks at the contemporary age through the Marxist lens and the Gramscian lesson, without giving into dogmatic positions.

He was a professor of Contemporary History at Facoltà di magistero of the University of Urbino from 1964 until his retirement in 1992. Santarelli focused his studies mainly on the fascist regime and its interpretation, keeping a historiographic approach that served contemporaneity as an active part within civil and political tensions that permeated it. Starting from the 1960s, he undertook many trips outside the European continent, following his intellectual interest in the social history of the contemporary world and of the anti-colonial struggles.

As a member of the board of directors of the National Institute for the History of the Liberation Movement in Italy, in 1974 Santarelli promoted the foundation of the Regional Institute for the History of the Liberation Movement in the Marche region. In 1991, because of the dissolution of the Italian Communist Party, he decided to join the Communist Refoundation Party. 


Among his main publications are:


1.4 Date and methods of acquisition

The Enzo Santarelli Collection was presented to the University of Urbino as a donation in 1993.

1.5 Collection development

On December 16, 1993, the University of Urbino’s Board of Directors, chaired by dean Carlo Bo, approved the act of donation of Professor Enzo Santarelli's periodicals collection to the University Library. This deliberation was based on the donor's will express since 1991 to Professor Giovanni Bogliolo, who at the time was chairman of the Library reorganization commission. In the following months, Professor Ermanno Torrico started cataloguing of the material. Initially the collection was held at Palazzo Bonaventura (Via Saffi, 2), after 2001, the collection was moved to Palazzo Diani (Via Santa Chiara, 18) together with the whole Humanities Periodicals Section.

1.6 Collection increase

No further material is expected to be added to the collection.

1.7 Collection indexing

The collection was given to the University without any kind of list. In 1998, a printed catalogue, edited by Professor Ermanno Torrico, was published: “Fondo Enzo Santarelli: catalogo", [sine loco, sine nomine], (Urbino, Arti grafiche editoriali), XIV, 457 pages, [16] p. of plates. The cataloguing information is now available on the Italian Catalogue of Periodicals (ACNP), the National Library System (SBN), and the catalogue of the Marche North Pole of SBN.

1.8 Collection accessibility  

The collection has been fully catalogued and made available to the public.


2. DESCRIPTION

2.1 Extent

The collection consists of approximately 1,200 titles regarding history, politics, and many other cultural topics. Particularly, it includes newspapers and periodical journals both from the workers and socialist movements since their origins to the 1980s, literary and political magazines from the first half of the 20th century, publications regarding the movements of 1968 and 1977, contemporary historiography journals, and magazines focused on other topics: catholic, libertarian, feminist, fascist, neo-fascist, and so on.


The printed catalogue edited by Professor Ermanno Torrico aims to divide the collection into the following subjects:

2.2 Description identifier, organization, and placement

Fondo Enzo Santarelli kept its autonomy from the other collections. The shelving sections are divided based on the format

2.3 State of conservation

Well preserved.


3. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND DOCUMENTATION

3.1 Bibliography and documentation


About Enzo Santarelli:


4. NOTES

4.1 Special notes and reports

Beside the collection of newspapers and magazines donated to the University of Urbino, Enzo Santarelli gave other documentary nuclei from his personal library to other institutions: Biblioteca del Consiglio regionale delle Marche (main nucleus of over 5,000 volumes), Biblioteca di storia moderna e contemporanea in Rome (pamphlets and unique issues), Biblioteca Giorgio Aprea of the University of Cassino (books), and Biblioteca Franco Serantini in Pisa (twenty-seven books). 

Regarding these donations, please see:





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COMPLIER'S NAME

Luigi Balsamini