Renzo De Felice

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Renzo De Felice
Born	(1929-04-08)8 April 1929 Rieti, Kingdom of Italy
Died	25 May 1996(1996-05-25) (aged 67) Rome, Republic of Italy
Occupation	Historian, writer
Alma mater	Sapienza University of Rome
Genre	History
Subject	Benito Mussolini, Italian fascism and Jacobinism
Literary movement	Historical revisionism
Notable works	History of the Jews under Fascism (1961) Biography of Mussolini (1965–1996)
Spouse	Livia De Ruggiero

Renzo De Felice (8 April 1929 – 25 May 1996) was an Italian historian, who specialized in the Fascist era, writing, among other works, a 6000-page biography of Mussolini (4 volumes, 1965–1997). He argued that Mussolini was a revolutionary modernizer in domestic issues but a pragmatist in foreign policy who continued the Realpolitik policies of Italy from 1861 to 1922.^[1] Historian of Italy Philip Morgan has called De Felice's biography of Mussolini "a very controversial, influential and at the same time problematic re-reading of Mussolini and Fascism" and rejected the contention that his work rose above politics to "scientific objectivity", as claimed by the author and his defenders.^[2]