Eminent political scientist and
public intellectual Giovanni Sartori died at the age of 92
Tuesday, the Corriere della Sera newspaper, for which he wrote
editorials, announced.
It said Florence-born Sartori, who would have turned 93 on
May 13, was "the author of books on democracy translated all
over the world, but also a caustic polemicist."
It recalled that, writing for Corriere, he dubbed two
electoral laws the Mattarellum and the Porcellum, showing his
characteristic irony and wit.
Born in Florence in 1924, Sartori began his academic career
as a lecturer in the history of modern philosophy.
He founded the first political science chair in Italy, and
was dean of the newly formed University of Florence's department
of political science.
Sartori served as Albert Schweitzer Professor in the
Humanities at Columbia University from 1979 to 1994 and was
later appointed Professor emeritus at the New York university.
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