Italian Society for Military History


The Italian Society for Military History is a scientific society founded by Raimondo Luraghi, in Rome on 14 December 1984. Its aim is promoting studies in the field of military history and organizes meetings, seminars, and other events related to the society's aim. The society periodically issues studies, newsletters, and bulletins. Its primary aim is historical research in collaboration with organisations, societies, and students. It also grants scholarships for university degrees. Other initiatives related to the pursuit of the society's aim can be accomplished or sponsored by proposal by external subjects.

Partners

The SISM is a society acknowledged by the Italian Defense Ministry. It cooperates with the Commissione Italiana di Storia Militare, constituted by a ministerial order on 21 November 1986, with the Centro interuniversitario di studi e ricerche storico-military, constituted by an agreement between universities of Turin, Padua and Pisa, and with the Society of Friends of the Italian Military Library, constituted in Varallo Sesia on 20 September 2008. SISM divulged in Italy the Bibliographer Internationale d'histoire militaire attended by the Bibliography Committee of the Commission international d'histoire militaire.
SISM collaborated with CISM in organizing the 18th and 19th International Conference of the Commission Internationale d'Histoire Militaire, which took place in Turin in the years 1992 and 2013.

Honorary presidents

Presidents

  • Prof. Raimondo Luraghi
  • Gen. Filippo Stefani
  • Prof. Massimo Mazzetti
  • Prof. Massimo Mazzetti
  • Prof. Antonello Folco Maria Biagini
  • Gen. Pierpaolo Meccariello
  • Prof. Giuseppe Conti
  • Prof. Virgilio Ilari
  • Gen. Pierpaolo Meccariello
  • Prof. Mariano Gabriele
  • Prof. Virgilio Ilari

General managers

  • Michele Nones
  • Giuseppe Conti
  • Piero Crociani
  • Ciro Paoletti
  • Flavio Carbone
  • Nicola Pignato
  • Annamaria Isastia

Publications

Books

In collaboration with CIRSM

  • Italian military historiography in the last twenty years, edited by Giorgio Rochat and Piero Del Negro, Milano, Angeli, 1985
  • Italian bibliography about history and military studies 1960–1984, edited by Giorgio Rochat, Piero Del Negro and Filippo Frassati, Milano, F. Angeli, 1987.
  • Handbook on Italian military history (Guida alla storia militare italiana, edited by Piero Del Negro, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli, 1997
  • Catalogue of Italian students of military history 2005 (Repertorio degli studiosi italiani di storia militare 2005, edited by Gian Luca Balestra and Nicola Labanca, Milano, Edizioni UNICOPLI, 2005

In collaboration with The Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities

  • The fonts for the Italian military history in the Contemporary Age, Ministry of [Cultural Heritage and Activities (Italy)|Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities] – Central department for archival resources, Roma, 1993.

In collaboration with CISM

Acta of the 2nd National meeting on military history held in Rome at CASD 28–20 October 1999, Italian committee on Military History, Roma, 2001

Chaiers

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  • 1996–1997 National identity of the Armed Forces. Acta of the 4th meeting of Sism in Caserta, edited by Fortunato Minniti, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli, 2001.1999, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli, 2001.
  • 2000 – The military historiography in France and in Italy. Comparison of two experiences Acta, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli, 2001.2001–2002 Italian soldiers in Africa edited by Nicola Labanca, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli, 20042004–2005 – Tsushima 1905 – Jutland 1916. Acta of naval seminaries of SISM 2005, edited by Marco Gemignani.
  • 2006 – History of the future war. Acta of the 1st meeting SISM at Varallo, edited by Giovanni Cerino Badone.
  • 2007–08 History of the economic war. Acta of the 2nd meeting SISM at Varallo, edited by Catia Eliana Gentilucci.
  • 2009 The war of 1859 Acta of the National Meeting CISM-SISM about the Second Italian War of Independence
  • 2010 The year of Teano, Acta of the meeting on political-military history of year 1860 held at CASD in November 2009
  • 2011 The Saint Mark weapons Acta of the meeting on the military history of the Serenissima held at Venice and Padua, September 2011
  • 2012-2013 American Legacy. SISM commemorates Raimondo Luraghi).