Nicolae Iorga, Doctor Honoris Causa dell’Università di Roma La Sapienza

Abstract

Nicolae Iorga, Romanian historian, politician, and literary critic, was awarded a Honorary Degree by the University of Roma (Faculty of Letters). This study aims to chronologically reconstruct the events, from the proposal to the awarding of the academic honour to the Romanian President of the Democratic Nationalist Party on 31 January 1933, through documents, press articles and photographs found in the archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Italy), in the Archive of the University of Bucharest, at the “Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History (Bucharest), and at the “Nicolae Iorga” Memorial Museum (Vălenii de Munte).