Gianfranco Miglio

Gianfranco Miglio
Member of the Senate of the Republic
for Lombardy
In office
23 April 1992 – 29 May 2001
ConstituencyComo
Personal details
Born(1918-01-11)11 January 1918
Como, Italy
Died10 April 2001(2001-04-10) (aged 83)
Como, Italy
Political partyChristian Democracy (1943–1959)[1]
Northern League (1991–1994)
Federalist Party (1994–2001)
SpouseMiriam Previero
ChildrenLeo Miglio
Alma materUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Profession
Philosophy career
SchoolEnglish School[2]
Classical liberalism
Main interests
Politics, sociology
Notable ideas
Padania, establishment of a confederation in Italy
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Gianfranco Miglio School Centre in Adro

Gianfranco Miglio (11 January 1918 – 10 August 2001) was an Italian jurist, political scientist, and politician. He was a founder of the Federalist Party. For thirty years, he presided over the political science faculty of Milan's Università Cattolica (Catholic University). Later on in his life, he was elected as an independent member of the Parliament to the Italian Senate for Lega Nord.[3] The supporters of Umberto Bossi's party called him Prufesùr (the Professor), a Lombard nickname to remember his role.

Inspired by Max Weber and Carl Schmitt, Miglio's works have analysed prevailing power structures in politics, parliamentarianism and bureaucracies. An advocate of federalism, Miglio grew even more radical in his later years, moving to a confederal or even secessionist and libertarian standpoint, in part due to his readings of Étienne de La Boétie and Henry David Thoreau.[4][5][6][7][8]

Some of Miglio's work has been published in English by the journal Telos, but the bulk of his opus has never been translated from Italian.

  1. ^ Alessandro Campi (2010). Treccani (ed.). Miglio, Gianfranco. Vol. 74. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ Alessandro Campi (10 May 2012). "Il realismo liberale di Gianfranco Miglio". Fondazione Einaudi.
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  4. ^ (in Italian) ' Miglio Non Merita Di Essere Italiano' – La Repubblica.It. Ricerca.repubblica.it (7 September 1993). Retrieved on 2015-06-27.
  5. ^ (in Italian) QUINTINO SELLA MEGLIO DI MIGLIO – la Repubblica.it. Ricerca.repubblica.it (27 July 1993). Retrieved on 2015-06-27.
  6. ^ (in Italian) Speroni Infiamma Il Senato ' Brusca E' Siciliano' . ' E Tu Razzista' – La Repubblica.It. Ricerca.repubblica.it (24 May 1996). Retrieved on 2015-06-27.
  7. ^ (in Italian) Di Liegro: ' Parole Degne Di Un Naziskin' – La Repubblica.It. Ricerca.repubblica.it (22 July 1993). Retrieved on 2015-06-27.
  8. ^ (in Italian) LE RADICI DELLA LEGA – la Repubblica.it. Ricerca.repubblica.it (15 October 1992). Retrieved on 2015-06-27.