Massimo Teodori

Massimo Teodori (born 9 September 1938) is an Italian author and politician; his books mainly focus on the differences between Europe and the United States.

His grandfather, a landowning farmer, was a liberal deputy in Ascoli Piceno from 1903 to 1919 who shared the ideas of Giovanni Giolitti.

As of 1958 he lives in Rome, where he got a university degree in architecture with Bruno Zevi and Ludovico Quaroni, whom he began to collaborate with.

In the mid-1960s he lived in the United States (New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Berkeley).

In Italy he has taught at the Libera Università Italiana Scienze Sociali (LUISS) of Rome and at the Johns Hopkins University extension at Bologna.