Pietro Fedele (1873–1943) was a professor of history at the University of Turin (1906–1914) and at the Sapienza University of Rome (1914–1942). He was also chairman of the Institute of Roman Studies (‘Istituto di Studi Romani’) from 1925 to 1929 and of the Italian Historical Institute for the Middle Ages (‘Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo’) from 1932 until his death. Apart from his academic activities, Fedele was Member of Parliament for the Fascist National Party (from 1924), Minister of Public Education (1925–1928), and senator (from 1928) (Biscione 1995). He authored the inscriptions on the Arch of Victory in Bolzano/Bozen (1928) (Strobl 2020: 158–59) and the inscription in the Consistory Hall in Palazzo Venezia in Rome (1930), no more extant.

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Strobl, Wolfgang. 2020. ‘In honorem et memoriam fortissimorum virorum… Zur präfaschistischen und faschistischen Biografie einer Römischen Inschrift’. In Studies in the Latin Literature and Epigraphy of Italian Fascism, edited by Han Lamers, Bettina Reitz-Joosse, and Valerio Sanzotta, 143–74. Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 46. Leuven: Leuven University Press.

Antonino Nastasi