Davide Rodogno is a Swiss and Italian historian of humanitarianism, human rights and international organisations since the nineteenth century.
[2][3] In 2005, he received the Italian literary award, Feudo Di Maida Prize (in full, Premio Letterario Internazionale Feudo Di Maida), for his book Il nuovo ordine mediterraneo (published by Bollati Boringhieri, Turin).
[4] The book, a history of Italy's fascist imperial ambitions in the 1940s, was re-published by Cambridge University Press under the title Fascism’s European Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
It has been described as an "illuminating appraisal of Fascist Italy's ambitions" and "pioneering".
[5][6][7] Rodogno holds a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and University of Geneva.