The Ruggiero Romano Fund contains 7000 volumes, 200 journals of particular value for the study of history in the modern age and 3000 Estratti.
The Fund also contains 400 slides and 100 proofs of photographs taken by the historian on his travels. To enhance this part of the Fund, the University Library has designed and produced the video "The travels of Ruggiero Romano".
Ruggiero Romano (Fermo 1923-Paris 2002) taught Problems and methods of economic history from 1952 to 1992 at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, he was professor of Latin American history at the Collegio de México. Among his numerous publications on economic history of the modern age translated all over the world are: Europe between two crises (Einaudi 1980), Opposed conjuncture (Marsilio 1981), Paese Italia (Donzelli 1994), Braudel e noi (Donzelli 1995).
He conceived and edited the publishing company of the History of Italy and of the Einaudi Encyclopaedia. "A European, Roman, of Italian origin who having crossed multiple geographical and cultural "frontiers" has become an intellectual capable of expressing in an emblematic way the double dimension of being "European" and "Ibero-American" which will allow him to articulate his research on two main guidelines: history and the human sciences, historical knowledge and encyclopaedic experience conceived as overcoming the division in the fields of knowledge…”
