L’Italia in guerra, l’Italia in Pais: prospettive e retrospettive negli scritti di Ettore Pais durante la Grande Guerra (original) (raw)

2018, M. L. Chirico - S. Conti, La Grande Guerra. Luoghi, eventi, Testimonianze, Voci, Atti del Convegno di Studi (Napoli, 3-4 dicembre 2015), Canterano (RM) 2018

The historiographical works written by Ettore Pais between 1910 and 1920 reveal a complex figure: he interwines interesting historical analogies with banal nationalistic judgments and alternates acute views on contemporary geopolitics with dark illusions that anticipate his fascist drift. In this tangled skein, following the thread of the relationship between past and present can unravel Pais’ historiographical conception, which inevitably leads to a comparison with a ‘rival’ historian, Gaetano De Sanctis.