Rinaldo Boggiani

Pupil and disciple of the Italian legal historian Italo Mereu (1921–2009), he shared with his mentor the Chair of Institutions of Public Law at the Carlo Cattaneo Free University Institute in Castellanza (VA), during the academic years 1991–1995.

Member of the Scientific Board of Africana, Journal of Extra-European Studies, directed by Giovanni Armillotta.

Writer discovered by physicist Giorgio Cortellessa (1929–2018).

Author of the essay Antistoria della libertà di stampa in Italia (An Anti-History of Freedom of the Press in Italy), a work recommended by Treccani.

Author of the essay Storia della libertà di stampa in Italia (History of Freedom of the Press in Italy), adopted as a textbook by Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, for the academic years 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25. The essay is held in the Library of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.

His work in fiction led to an encounter with Romano Biancoli, founder of the Erich Fromm Institute and an IFPS psychoanalyst, who wrote the introductions to the works Stelle nere (Black Stars), Domani ero (Tomorrow I Was), and La Shoah nel pianto di un bambino (The Shoah in a Child’s Cry).