Spain and Weimar. Hispano-German paths one hundred years after the first German democracy

Dossier edited by Marco Cipolloni and Giacomo Demarchi

Authors

Marco Cipolloni Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Giacomo Demarchi Università degli Studi di Milano

Abstract

Author Biographies

Marco Cipolloni, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Marco Cipolloni is full professor of Language, culture and institutions of the Spanish-speaking countries and Variety of the language and Intercultural Communication (Spanish language) at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
Translator of fiction and non-fiction (of cultural, urban and economic history) and historian of Spanish and Hispanic-American cinema, he has published essays and monographs on numerous themes of history, literature, theater and cinema in Spain and Latin America. In addition to being editor of Contemporary Spain, he actively collaborates in cinema magazines ("La Magnifica Ossessione", "Letra / Imagen"), theater ("Theatralia"), linguistics and literature (“Quaderni iberoamericani”).
Giacomo Demarchi, Università degli Studi di Milano

Giacomo Demarchi has obtained a doctorate in Law and Political Science from the Autonomous University of Madrid and a Doctor Europaeus in History and Comparison of European political and legal institutions from the University of Messina. The main focus of his research is the comparative constitutional history in the interwar Europe, with special emphasis on the circulation of territorial models and the formation of legal elites in the Spanish, Italian and German context. Member and coordinator of the editorial team of the magazine "Contemporary Spain" and member of the scientific and administrative councils of the Institute of Historical Studies Gaetano Salvemini in Turin, since 2012 he has been teaching and researching at the Department of Historical Studies of the University of Milan.