Professors’ obituaries. A valuable source for studying the history of university and higher education

This work aims at analysing and enhancing the role of professors’ obituaries, which were published on the pages of the specialized periodical press during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, for the precise and detailed reconstruction of the history of Italian university during the contemporary era. In fact, as demonstrated by the author’s careful analysis, this source, which has only recently been the subject of a specific attention by historians of education and school, also has an undoubted heuristic potential in terms of history of Higher Education and University.