Gianfranco Miglio was an Italian

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 jurist

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, political scientist and politician

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, founder of the Partito Federalista

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The Federalist Party was a federalist Italian political party.It was launched as Federalist Union on 1 June 1994 by Gianfranco Miglio, an influent Senator and political scientist who left Lega Nord in May over disagreements with Umberto Bossi, and Umberto Giovine, an ex-Socialist who was at the...

. For 30 years, he presided over the Political science Faculty of Milan

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's Università Cattolica

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 (Catholic University). Later on in his life, he was elected as an independent member of the Parliament to the Italian Senate

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 for the Lega Nord. The supporters of Umberto Bossi

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's party called him Prufesùr (the Professor), a Lombard nickname to remember his role.

Inspired by Max Weber

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 and Carl Schmitt

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, Miglio's works have analysed prevailing power structures in politics, parliamentarianism and bureaucracies. An advocate of federalism

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, Miglio grew even more radical in his later years, moving to a confederal or even secessionist standpoint, in part due to his readings of Étienne de La Boétie

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 and Henry David Thoreau

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Some of Miglio's work has been published in English in the journal TELOS

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, but the bulk of his opus has never been translated from Italian.

In English

• “The Cultural Roots of the Federalist Revolution”. Telos 97 (Fall 1997). New York: Telos Press.

Books about Gianfranco Miglio

• L. Ornaghi, A. Vitale, Multiformità e unità della politica. Atti del Convegno tenuto in occasione del 70° compleanno di *Gianfranco Miglio, 24-26 ottobre 1988, Giuffrè, Milan, 1992
• G. Ferrari, Gianfranco Miglio: un giacobino nordista, Liber, Rome, 1993
• A. Campi, Schmitt, Freund, Miglio: figure e temi del realismo politico europeo, Akropolis/La Roccia di Erec, Florence, 1996
• Aa.Vv., Gianfranco Miglio: un uomo libero, Quaderni Padani n. 37-38 della Libera Compagnia Padana, Novara, 2002
• Aa.Vv., Un Miglio alla libertà, Audiolibro, Leonardo Facco Editore (collana Laissez Parler), Treviglio (Bg), 2005
• D. Palano, Il cristallo dell'obbligazione politica in ID., Geometrie del potere, Vita e Pensiero, Milan, 2005.
• G. Di Capua, Gianfranco Miglio, scienziato impolitico, Rubbettino, Catanzaro, 2006.
• Aa.Vv., Gianfranco Miglio: gli articoli, Quaderni Padani n. 64-65 della Libera Compagnia Padana, Novara, 2006.
• Aa.Vv., Gianfranco Miglio: le interviste, Quaderni Padani n. 69-70 della Libera Compagnia Padana, Novara, 2007.

See also

• Lega Nord
• Padania
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• Umberto Bossi
  Umberto Bossi
  Umberto Bossi is an Italian politician, leader of the Northern League, a party seeking autonomy or independence for Northern Italy. He is married to Manuela Marrone and has four sons ....