HISTORIANS AND THE TWO FACES OF JANUS An interview to Francesco Benigno

Francesco Benigno is a famous Italian historian. From November 1994 is full professor of modern History and since 1995 of Courses in Methodology of historical research in Teramo University. Director of IMES (Istituto Meridionale di Storia e Scienze Sociali), Rome (1994). Dean of the Facolta di Scienze della Comunicazione, Teramo University (2002-2010). From 2001 is President of the Consiglio del Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione della Facolta di Scienze Politiche, Teramo University. Member of GEV (Group of expert evaluators) of ANVUR (The national agency for the evaluation of scientific research). Coordinator of the Teramo unit of the European project ENBaCH (European Network for Baroch Heritage) financied by UE (2009-2013). Member of the editorial board of Meridiana. Rivista di storia e scienze sociali (from 1993). Founder and member of the Editorial board of the journal Storica (from 1995). Visiting profesor: University of Cambridge (1988-1989), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Marseille (1998), University of Coimbra (2000), University of Girona (2011), University of Barcelona (2012), University of Cantabria (2013). He has disposition towards research on european scale: His researches involve directly Italy, Spain, France and England. Benigno's principal publications are: La sombra del Rey. Ministros y lucha politica en la Espana de los Austrias (Madrid, Alianza 1993); Espejos de la revolucion. Conflicto y identidad politica en la Europa moderna (Barcelona, Critica, 2001); Favoriti e ribelli. Stili della politica barocca, (Roma, Bulzoni, 2011). Parole nel tempo. Un lessico per pensare la storia, (Roma, Viella, 2013) (con versiones en ingles y castellano); La mala setta. Alle origini di mafia e camorra. 1859-1878 (Torino, Einaudi, 2015).