Round Table in collaboration with Europe Direct Romagna and Università di Bologna – Dipartimento di Beni Culturali.

A dialogue between the companies Hotel Europa and Hermanas Picohueso, the professors Alfondo Botti and Stefano Salmi, coordinated by prof. Michele Marchi.

On the occasion of the Round Table there will be a desk for book lending curated by Biblioteca di Storia Contemporanea Alfredo Oriani


Michele Marchi is professor of Contemporary History at the Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Ravenna Campus, where he teaches Political History of European Integration, History of Euro-Mediterranean Political Systems since 1945 and History of the Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean, among other subjects. He is vice president of the Oriani House Foundation and a member of the Il Mulino Association for Culture and Politics. His main research interests concern the political history of contemporary Europe and the relationship between domestic politics and the process of European integration in the second half of the twentieth century. Among his recent publications France and Italy so near, so far (with D. Caviglia), “Ventunesimo Secolo,” 42/2018; Democristiani, Chiesa e cattolici negli anni di Craxi (with G. Acquaviva and P. Pombeni), Marsilio, 2018; Italian Democracy and Republic between the Antifascist Victory and Cold War, in “Ricerche di Storia Politica,” July/2022; Presidenzialismo a metà. French Model, Italian Passion, Il Mulino, 2023; Jacques Delors, in “Il Mulino,” 1-2024.

Alfonso Botti is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History in the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Studies at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He previously taught at the Universities of Urbino, Trieste and Cattolica / Milano. Editor of the journal Spagna contemporanea which has been published since 1992, he has been co-director of Modernism since 2015. His scholarly interests focus on the history of Catholicism, the Church, nationalisms, anti-Semitism and various aspects of Spanish, Italian and European political history in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Stefano Salmi was born in Budrio (Bologna) in 1957. He received his master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Bologna in 2003 and his doctorate in Letters and Philosophy, History, from the University of Coimbra in 2013. Postdoctoral degree in Humanities and Philosophy, Journalism and Communication Science, at the University of Porto (2015); Master’s degree in History and Oriental Studies at the University of Bologna (2019). He worked from 1985 to 2020 at the Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna, and he is a member of the Contemporary History Association. On a similar theme, he curated Repubblica, repubblicanesimo e repubblicani. Italia, Portogallo, Brasile in prospettiva comparata (Archetipolibri 2012), first published for the Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra together with Armando Malheiro da Silva, Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro in 2011.