Nico Perrone


Nico Perrone is an Italian essayist, historian and journalist. He firstly discovered papers on the plot for killing Enrico Mattei, the Italian state tycoon for oil in the 1950s.
He is the author of twenty books, and some fifty shorter essays published in Italy, Denmark and the USA. He is the author also of a thousand leading articles and other contributions to Italian and Swiss newspapers.

Biography

Born Nicola Carlo Perrone in Bari, the only son of Raffaele and Luisa Tortorella. His father was an Arditi volunteer during World War I and then a mass leader. Other relatives had strong national sentiments. In his family heritage a Garibaldi's volunteer and a Jacobin priest executed after he participated in 1799 revolution.
After World War II, due to a crisis of public schools Perrone attended for two years a Jesuit priests school, standing on the laical position of his parents but appreciating that severe and sophisticated method of teaching. Then graduated in Diplomatic History, and held scholarships for the University College Dublin and Sofiyski Universitet.
Charged to study foreign labour laws for ENI, the Italian state oil holding, in Rome. ENI president, Enrico Mattei, appointed him as an observer with the Italian Ministry for the Public Administration Reform; later he worked with a publisher in Bari. Invited in USA with the International Visitor Leadership Program, he received the honorary citizenship of the State of Nebraska.
Co-editor for the Italian monthlies Storia in Rete, and Giano.
Associate Professor of Contemporary History and American History at the University of Bari; he was director for the Institute of Modern and Contemporary History, and professor for the European Union European Module in Social and Economic History of European Integration.
He was visiting professor in Denmark, in Switzerland, in Albania, and in the US. He was sometimes host professor at the University of Padua, Italy.
Perrone has been a founder member, vice president, member of the board for the EU European Education Programme on Society-Science & Technology, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He is still member of the advisory board for the Federico Caffè Center at Roskilde University. He has been Bari University Rector's delegate for Denmark. He got Bari University Silver medal.
Starting from 1982, Perrone is a contributor for RAI, the Italian state broadcasting company. He contributes to several newspapers in Italy and Switzerland, and has been a contributor for the Westdeutscher Rundfunk and the Italian edition of Monthly Review.

Books

  • 1980 America, series editor
  • 1989. Mattei il nemico italiano. Politica e morte del presidente dell'ENI attraverso i documenti segreti, Milan, Leonardo Mondadori
  • 1991. Il dissesto programmato. Le partecipazioni statali nel sistema di consenso democristiano, Bari, Dedalo Libri
  • 1992. European and American Patterns in a Conflictive Development, Roskilde, RUC
  • 1992. Fjernt fra Maastricht. Far from Maastricht, Roskilde, RUC
  • 1993. La morte necessaria di Enrico Mattei, Viterbo, Millelire Stampa Alternativa
  • 1993. The Strategic Stakes in Mattei's Flight, in EIR, Vol. 20, No. 23, Washington, DC, June 11, 1993
  • 1995. De Gasperi e l'America, Palermo, Sellerio
  • 1995. Obiettivo Mattei. Petrolio, Stati Uniti e politica dell'Eni, Roma, Gamberetti
  • 1996. Maastricht from Scandinavia, Roskilde, RUCI In: Festschrift 14 papers in honour of Bruno Amoroso's 60th birthday
  • 1996. Alcide De Gasperi. L'Italia atlantica, Rome, Manifestolibri
  • 1996. James Monroe. Il manifesto dell'imperialismo americano, Rome, Manifestolibri
  • 1997. John F. Kennedy. La nuova frontiera, Rome, Manifestolibri
  • 1998. The Mediterranean and the American Patronage
  • 1999. Giallo Mattei. I discorsi del fondatore dell'Eni che sfidò gli United States, la NATO e le Sette Sorelle, Rome, Stampa Alternativa Nuovi Equilibri
  • 2000. Il truglio. Infami, delatori e pentiti nel Regno di Napoli, Palermo, Sellerio
  • 2001. Enrico Mattei, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2001
  • 2002. Il segno della DC. L’Italia dalla sconfitta al G7, Bari, Dedalo Libri
  • 2002. Economia pubblica rimossa, in Studi in onore di Luca Buttaro, Milano, Giuffrè
  • 2003. The International Economy from a Political to an Authoritative Drive, in Globalisation and Welfare, Roskilde, Roskilde University Press
  • 2006. La Loggia della Philantropia, Palermo, Sellerio
  • 2006. Perché uccisero Enrico Mattei. Petrolio e guerra fredda nel primo grande delitto italiano, Rome, L'Unità Libri
  • 2009. L’inventore del trasformismo. Liborio Romano, strumento di Cavour per la conquista di Napoli, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino
  • 2010. Obama. Il peso delle promesse. Yes, we can't, 1st and 2nd enlarged edition, Lamezia Terme, Settecolori
  • 2011. L'agente segreto di Cavour. Giuseppe Massari e il mistero del diario mutilato, Bari, Palomar
  • 2013. Progetto di un impero. 1823. L'annuncio dell'egemonia americana infiamma la borsa, Naples, La Città del Sole
  • 2015. La profezia di Sciascia. Una conversazione e quattro lettere, Milan, Archinto
  • 2016. Arrestate Garibaldi. L'ordine impossibile di Cavour, Rome, Salerno Editrice
  • 2017. La svolta occidentale. De Gasperi e il nuovo ruolo internazionale dell’Italia, Rome, Castelvecchi
  • 2022. Il realismo politico di De Gasperi. Fanfani invece vuole i missili americani, Rome, Bastogi