Ricerc@Sapienza

The Anna Rossi-Doria's interest for the history of the peasants and the southern countryside of Italy was born in the period of her education, when the participation in the protest movements of 1968, the strict contact with some intellectuals and a family environment influenced by her father - the "meridionalista" Manlio Rossi-Doria - constituted the conditions for one of her most important publications, on the so-called "Gullo decrees" launched in 1944-45. Love and interests for the peasants will never completely abandon the course of Anna's studies, becoming part of a wider reflection on history and memory, outside the traditional historiographic approaches.