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Ferdinando Scala
BornMay 24, 1969
Portici (Italy)
Academic background
Alma materNunziatella Military School
University of Naples Federico II
Academic work
EraXX-XXI century
Main interestsmilitary historian, History of warfare, World War I, Fascism
Notable worksIl generale Armando Tallarigo
I Generali italiani della Grande Guerra

Ferdinando Scala (born May 24, 1969) is an Italian biologist, science and technology journalist and historian, specialized in strategy and military history.

Biography

Born in Portici, he spent his first year of life in Foggia, where his father was servicing as a warrant officer of the Italian Air Force, and then he moved to San Giorgio a Cremano, that he then always considered his hometown. Here he frequented elementary and middle school, and then he spent the first two years of high school at Liceo Classico Statale "Quinto Orazio Flacco" of Portici.

A cadet of the class 1984-87 of Nunziatella Military School of Naples, he studied together with Antonio Mele,[1] Marco Mattiucci,[1] Valerio Gildoni,[2][3][4] Antonio De Crescentiis,[2] and Bepi Pezzulli.[5] Admitted at Military Academy of Modena as a cadet officer of 169º class, he resigned and enrolled as a student of biological sciences of the University of Naples Federico II.

Graduated summa cum laude in March 1995, he spent one year of research work at CNR-ISPAIM institute of Ercolano, then in January 1997 he won a yearly research fellowship and he was assigned to the Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionelle et Evolutive, a CNRS institute of Montpellier.[6] In this period, he performed research activity in the field of satellite and airborne remote sensing applications to environmental monitoring[7] in collaboration with the Joint Research Center of the European Commission and DLR. He further collaborated with European Space Agency to the ENVISAT mission, and finally he participated as author to the Italian National Communication to Fight Desertification in the UNCCD framework.[8]

Having abandoned his scientific career, in 1998 he moved to the pharmaceutical industry, where he held positions in Italy and abroad in marketing & sales for Abbott,[9] Menarini,[10] Takeda,[11] Serono,[12] Bristol-Myers Squibb,[13] Allergan, and living between Florence,[14] Rome[11] and Dublin .[15] In 2010 he moved to management consulting in Publicis Groupe, also in the pharmaceutical sector, working at global level for Healthware International as Strategy Director.[16][17][18][19] Between 2013-2023 he has been teaching Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management at Alma Laboris Business School in Rome.[20] Between 2016 and 2020, he served as a Board Member of Select Milano,[21][22][23] a conservative think-tank and business diplomacy initiative,[24][25][26] with the mission to foster bilateral relations with the City of London after Brexit.[27][28][29][30] In 2020 he started working as a contributor to the science, information security and technology magazine Infosec.news, founded by Umberto Rapetto[31] and he qualified as a journalist on September 22, 2022.[32]

He began publishing in the field of military history in 2016, making a monographic contribution to the history of the Nunziatella after discovering the lack of a name on the war memorial of the Academy inaugurated in 1920.[33] In 2018, after five years of research, he published a biographical volume on General Armando Tallarigo, commander first of the 152nd Infantry Regiment and then of the Sassari Brigade during the First World War. In this work, presented at the International Festival èStoria in Gorizia,[34] he brought back to historical reality the events narrated by Emilio Lussu in the volume Un anno sull'altipiano (One year on the High Plateau), and then taken up again in fictional form by Francesco Rosi in the movie Many Wars Ago (Uomini contro).[35][36] In 2019 he published with historians Paolo Gaspari and Paolo Pozzato the encyclopedic volume The Italian Generals of Great War, C-Z (I generali italiani della Grande guerra, C-Z), an important contribution to the historiography of the First World War on the Italian Front, published in collaboration with the Historical Office of the General Staff of the Italian Army.[37][38] The following year, he participated in the book La religione civile di un popolo (The Civil Religion of a People),[39] dedicated to re-evaluating Italy's contribution to the Great War through the monuments that commemorate the fallen and to reinterpreting the First World War as a fundamental moment in the construction of the nation. The book attracted significant attention from the press and the RAI national television.[40][41][42]

Since 2020 he has been a member of the Italian Society for Military History and his current research interests are focused on the history of the Carabinieri and the relationship between military hierarchies and Italian Fascism.

Books

  • Ferdinando Scala, Il caduto dimenticato – la breve Grande Guerra di Federico Mensingher. Associazione Nazionale Ex Allievi Nunziatella, Napoli 2016. Full text.
  • Ferdinando Scala, Il generale Armando Tallarigo – dalla leggenda della Brigata Sassari al dopoguerra. Gaspari Editore, Udine 2018. ISBN 978-88-7541-597-6
  • Paolo Gaspari, Paolo Pozzato, Ferdinando Scala, I generali italiani della Grande guerra, Atlante biografico C-Z. Gaspari Editore, Udine 2019. ISBN 978-88-7541-409-2
  • Paolo Gaspari, Paolo Pozzato, Ferdinando Scala, I generali: Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia-Aosta, Antonio Edoardo Chinotto, Tommaso Monti, Giuseppe Paolini, Giovanni Prelli, Fulvio Riccieri, Ferruccio Trombi, Achille Papa, Alceo Cattalochino. In: AA.VV. La religione civile di un popolo. Carso, Redipuglia, Oslavia, il cimitero degli Eroi di Aquileia. Gaspari Editore, Udine 2020. ISBN 978-88-7541-710-9.
  • Ferdinando Scala, La Nunziatella nella Grande Guerra 1915-1918 - I generali. Associazione Nazionale Ex Allievi Nunziatella, Napoli, 2021. Full text.
  • Armando Tallarigo, Ferdinando Scala, I Capi e la loro preparazione morale alla funzione del comando. Antonio Stango Editore, Arezzo 2023. ISBN 978-88-8890-957-8.

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b Catenacci 2015, p. 198.
  2. ^ a b Catenacci 2015, p. 199.
  3. ^ Città Castello ricorda sacrificio colonnello Arma Gildoni. ANSA, 17 luglio 2021
  4. ^ La lettera ricordo del Dottor Ferdinando Scala, già collega del Colonnello Valerio Gildoni, nel 12mo anniversario della morte. Primo Piano Notizie, 17 luglio 2021
  5. ^ Catenacci 2015, p. 200.
  6. ^ F. Scala, Restoring abaptation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 12, Issue 8, August 1997, Page 320
  7. ^ D Caraux-Garson, B Lacaze, F Scala, J Hill, W Mehl Ten years of vegetation cover monitoring with LANDSAT-TM remote sensing, an operational approach of DeMon-2 in Languedoc, France. Symposium on operational remote sensing for sustainable development, Enschede, Nederlands, May 1998
  8. ^ Comunicazione Nazionale per la Lotta alla Siccità ed alla Desertificazione, Ministero dell'Ambiente, 1999
  9. ^ Catenacci, Orsini & Sbordone 2015, p. 99.
  10. ^ Catenacci, Orsini & Sbordone 2015, p. 70.
  11. ^ a b Catenacci, Orsini & Sbordone 2015, p. 81.
  12. ^ Catenacci, Orsini & Sbordone 2015, p. 84.
  13. ^ Catenacci, Orsini & Sbordone 2015, p. 122.
  14. ^ Catenacci, Orsini & Sbordone 2015, p. 77.
  15. ^ admin (2023-08-16). "Ferdinando SCALA". GIANO NEWS (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-10-06.
  16. ^ How to sell healthcare services in an era of Big Data and Crowdsourcing. Poli.design, Politecnico di Milano
  17. ^ Esperti a confronto su "Sanità digitale e terapie digitali, i bisogni delle persone al centro del nuovo patto per la salute". Umbria Digitale, 28 June 2021
  18. ^ Vivere bene durante la terapia oncologica. European Cancer Patient Coalition
  19. ^ Judges at Digital Health Awards
  20. ^ Bio on Alma Laboris Business School website
  21. ^ "Milan offers City Brexit partnership amid threat from EU rivals". Sky News.
  22. ^ "Brexit is an opportunity to revamp Europe's financial landscape, according to Milan". CITY A.M. 2016-11-10.
  23. ^ "Brexit: Milan fait des appels du pied à la City". La Tribune (in French). 24 November 2016.
  24. ^ "Italy tries to swoop on City of London to 'fix its Brexit problem". Daily Express. 2016-11-10.
  25. ^ "Brexit : la place de Paris veut lutter "contre les idées reçues" (fiscales)". LaTribune.fr (in French). 29 November 2016.
  26. ^ "Milan extends help to City to fix Brexit mess". CITY A.M.
  27. ^ "23/12/2016: Cnbc (Trading Room)". Youtube (in Italian).
  28. ^ "13/12/2016: Cnbc (Trading Room)". Youtube (in Italian).
  29. ^ "03/11/2016: Cnbc (Trading Room)". Youtube (in Italian).
  30. ^ "13/10/2016: Rai 3 (Piazza Affari)". Youtube (in Italian).
  31. ^ Bio on Infosec.news
  32. ^ Rosso Maniero Nunziatella, Organo ufficiale dell'Associazione Nazionale Ex Allievi Nunziatella. Anno XVII, n. 4, dicembre 2022, p. 45
  33. ^ Ferdinando Scala, Il caduto dimenticato – la breve Grande Guerra di Federico Mensingher. Associazione Nazionale Ex Allievi Nunziatella, Napoli 2016.
  34. ^ Speakers at èStoria 2018
  35. ^ "Nuova Antologia Militare - Rivista interdisciplinare della Società di Storia Militare, Numero 1, Supplemento 1, 2020, p.1-3" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
  36. ^ Rassegna dell'Arma dei Carabinieri 2 Anno LXVII aprile - giugno 2019, p. 291-292
  37. ^ F. Carbone, M. Lippiello, Rassegna dell'Arma dei Carabinieri 2, Anno LXVII April-June 2021, p. 237-238
  38. ^ Nuova Antologia Militare - Rivista interdisciplinare della Società di Storia Militare. Supplemento Recensioni 2020, p. 245-248
  39. ^ La religione civile di un popolo, OPAC - Italian Public Libraries System. Access on February 4, 2022
  40. ^ Gianfranco Ellero, Cimiteri di guerra e sacrari, un viaggio nella religione civile di un popolo. Il Messaggero Veneto, 29 ottobre 2020
  41. ^ Andrea Cionci, Un libro che finalmente parla di Patria: religione civile fonte di amore e bellezza. Libero, 8 dicembre 2020
  42. ^ Il Milite ignoto, TG2 Dossier, RAI - Radiotelevisione Italiana, November 30, 2021, min. 37.50

Bibliography

  • Catenacci, Giuseppe (2015). Ruolo degli allievi Scuola Militare Nunziatella 1787-2015. Associazione Nazionale Ex Allievi Nunziatella.
  • Catenacci, Giuseppe; Orsini, Domenico; Sbordone, Sergio (2015). Storia dell'Associazione Nazionale Ex Allievi Nunziatella 1991-2015. Associazione Nazionale Ex Allievi Nunziatella.
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