About Norberto Bobbio
Norberto Bobbio was an Italian philosopher of law and political sciences and a historian of political thought. He also wrote regularly for the Turin-based daily La Stampa. Bobbio was a social liberal in the tradition of Piero Gobetti, Carlo Rosselli, Guido Calogero, and Aldo Capitini. He was also strongly influenced by Hans Kelsen and Vilfredo Pareto. He was considered one of the greatest Italian intellectuals of the 20th century. Bobbio's first book was The Phenomenological Turn in Social and Legal Philosophy (1934). In high school, Bobbio met Vittorio Foa, Leone Ginzburg and Cesare Pavese, and at the university, he became a friend of Alessandro Galante Garrone.
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