Giuseppe Sorge (1857–1937) was an Italian historian, prefect[1] and director of the public security.

Son of Carmelo Sorce (1820–1896), administrator of the goods of Lanza Branciforte of Trabia, and of Maria Crocifissa Nola.

In 1884 he married Maria Carolina Crima (1862–1917), nephew of Paolo Paternostro, Red Cross nurse who died during the First World War to fatal disease he contracted in the hospital in Brescia where he lavished.

Admitted in service on 12 May 1880, in 1887 he was appointed Regio delegato straordinario of Bronte, during the epidemic of cholera.

He was buried in the cemetery of St. Ursula Palermo, next to his wife Maria Carolina Crima.