L’expédition historique finlandaise à Rome (1909-15) e la storiografia italiana novecentesca

The article investigates the fortune in Italian historiography of the Expédition historique finlandaise à Rome, a Finnish historical expedition, which was active in Rome between 1909 and 1915, working especially in the Vatican Archives. The aim is to present the main interests of the expedition and of its members: Kaarlo Iivari and Liisi Karttunen, Gabriel Rein, Johan August Pärnänen, and especially its leader, the Swiss-born Henry Biaudet. These scholars focused primarily on: (1) the relationship between the Papacy and Scandinavia between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; (2) the establi... Mehr ...