Gioacchino Volpe (16 February 1876 – 1 October 1971) was an Italian historian and, during the years between the two world wars, a politician.

Born in Paganica, Volpe graduated in Letters at the University of Pisa, and in 1906 he became professor of modern history at the Scientific-Literary Academy of Milan [it].

[1] He was General Secretary of the Royal Academy of Italy from 1929 to 1934 and member of the Accademia dei Lincei from 1935 to 1946.

[1] In his works Volpe depicted the history of Italy as a rising process culminated in fascism.

[1] After the Greco-Italian War, his attitude towards fascism gradually became critical and distant.