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Biography

In his youth he was «a friend of Giuseppe Lazzati (later rector of the Catholic University of Milan), he too (...) active in Azione Cattolica, who grew up around Monsignor Montini»[2].

After the armistice of 8 September 1943, lieutenant of the Alpini, Giuntella was taken prisoner by the Germans and interned[3] in concentration camps in Poland and Germany (Sandbostel, Bergen-Belsen, Dęblin, Wietzendorf).

Giuntella spent the rest of his existence bearing witness to the black page in the history of humanity, which he experienced firsthand. Historian, librarian of the Senate of the Republic, professor of history of the age of the Enlightenment at the University of Rome, Giuntella dedicated his studies to the Roman Republic and to an exhaustive bibliography of the Risorgimento; reflections on faiths in the face of totalitarianism are fundamental; constantly committed to human rights, Giuntella was among the most authoritative representatives of the Opera Nomadi.

He was the father of the TG1 journalist Paolo Giuntella.

Works His studies focus on the 18th century [4] and on the events of the Second World War, deportation and the Resistance.

His volume Il nazismo e i Lager, Studium, Rome 1979, is fundamental.

His works dedicated to the Enlightenment include «Rome in the 18th century» and «The city of the Enlightenment. The idea and the new face" (Rome, Edizioni Studium, 1982).

He also wrote «Religion as a friend of Democracy. The democratic Catholics of the revolutionary three-year period (1796-1799)», Rome, Studium, 1979.