DONATELLA BOLECH CECCHI

I primi scritti pavesi di Federico Curato: tra storia e politica

N. 158

 

Summary — At the beginning of the '30ies the Faculty of Political Sciences of Pavia, starting in 1926, constituted an environment particularly favourable to the studies of foreign policy owing to the presence of distinguished teachers and of very keen scholars, to whom in 1933 was due the foundation of ISPI. In this group began his career of scholar and lecturer Federico Curato, who got his degree with Carlo Morandi on the 13th July 1933. In 1935 he started the collaboration with the reviews edited at that time by the Faculty, the Annali di Scienze Politiche and the Annuario di politica estera, publishing in the Annali a historiographic essay on the origins of the first world war, in which, although imputing the responsibility of the outbreak of the conflict to all the European powers, he maintained, against the prevailing thesis of the German fault, the preponderance of the Russian responsibility among the immediate causes of the war. In the three articles published in the Annuario di politica estera - anno XIII of 1936, which, in contrast with the philogerman directives of the Fascist government, were inclined towards an Italian-French reapprochement, Federico Curato, after examining the Anglo-German naval agreement, the German-polish agreement and the Russian-French pacts, identified in the system of alliances created by France with the European eastern countries the origin of the European division in two blocs, thus renouncing to obtain a general agreement amongst all the European countries and the return of Russia on the European stage.