A biographical and intellectual prophile of Mario Segre and Aldo Neppi Modona

Conceived on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the promulgation of the race laws, the project has a double aim. It will offer an up-to-date analysis of the race laws in Italy and of their impact on the Academic life, especially in the field of classical studies. It will also contribute to reconstruct the biographies and the intellectual profiles of some important scholars of the ancient world that were affected by the anti-Jewish purges: Mario Segre and Aldo Neppi Modona. The years of the racial segregation and of the deportations (1938-1945) will be taken into account, in comparison to the immediately preceding and following periods. Examinations of archival sources will be fundamental, in order to analyze unpublished or understudied documents.