Salvo MastelloneSALVO MASTELLONE is Professor of Political Doctrines at Florence University, where he directs the Cultural Centre for Foreigners. A former president of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions, he s Editor-in-Chief of the journal Il Pensiero Politico. His publications range from studies on Victor Cousin and on Mazzini and the Giovine Italia to works on the Venality of Offices in France, and on the Regency of Maria de' Medici. He is the author of an Ideological History of Europe from the 15th to the 20th Century in three volumes and a History of European Political Thought in two volumes. Read More Read Less