He graduated summa cum laude at the University of Naples (2012) in Historical Sciences, got my PhD in Historical Sciences at the University of Turin (2016). From 2016 to 2020, I have been Research Fellow at the Department of Historical Sciences and Cultural Heritage of the University of Siena and since 2017 to 2021 also Adjunct professor of History of Historiography and History of Contemporary Italy. I have also been Invited researcher/Chercheur invité Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme (FMSH)/l’Institute d’Historie du temp Present, University Paris 8
Principal investigator of the PRIN 2022 "ITALIAN COLD WAR BORDERS. A NEW RESEARCH FRAMEWORK ON TRASFORMATION DURING DETENTE" with the Universities of Bozen, Trieste and Udine.
Co-director of the Arena 4 "Digital Heritage" in the context of the DSSBC project for the "Excellent department" 2023-2027
Research areas:History and historiography of contemporary Italy, with specific specialization in the World Wars and Fascist eras, maritime, naval and military history.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9841-9093
De Ninno, F. (2014). I sommergibili del fascismo. Unicopli.
De Ninno, F. (2014, octubre). La guerra navale nel Mediterraneo. En Dizionario storico della Prima guerra mondiale (ISBN: 9788858114056).
De Ninno, F. (2014). I piani della marina per l’Oceano Indiano, 1925-1934. En Naval History, La Sism ricorda Alberto Santoni (1936-2013) (ISBN: 978-88-908510-5-6).
De Ninno, F. (2016, enero 15). Naval Warfare (Italy). En 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Freie Universität Berlin. http://dx.doi.org/10.15463/ie1418.10806
De Ninno, F. (2017). Fascisti sul mare: La Marina e gli ammiragli di Mussolini. Le Monnier.
De Ninno, F. (2017, octubre). The Fascist Naval Mission to Persia, China and Spain: Commerce and strategy in Mussolini’s Navy, 1933–1940. En B. C. Kessel & D. Jordan (Eds.), Naval Advising and Assistance: History, Challenges, and Analysis (ISBN: 9781911512820).
De Ninno, F. (2017, noviembre 16). 1911, Mare Nostrum. En A. Baricco (Ed.), Storia mondiale dell’Italia (ISBN: 9788858129838).
De Ninno, F. (2018, marzo). "Il mare nella storia". E quali riflessioni ci offre sull'Italia contemporanea. Italia Contemporanea, (286). https://doi.org/10.3280/ic2018-286010
De Ninno, F. (2018). “A poor, confused and late relative”: Italian Air Advising in Spain, 1936–1942. En B. C. Kessel & D. Jordan (Eds.), Air Force Advising and Assistance: Developing Air Power in Client States.
De Ninno, F. (2018). A new navalism for a Fascist empire: Navy, geopolitics, propaganda and radicalization (1934–1940). En M. R. Smith & R. Overy (Eds.), A Fascist Decade of War?: 1935–1945 in International Perspective (ISBN: 9781138574151).
De Ninno, F. (2019). Mostrare la bandiera dell’Italia fascista. La propaganda della marina all’estero tra le due guerre. Le Carte e la Storia. https://doi.org/10.1411/95634
De Ninno, F. (2019, diciembre). Piero Pieri. Il pensiero e lo storico militare. Le Monnier.
De Ninno, F. (2020, abril). The Italian Navy and Japan, the Indian Ocean, Failed Cooperation, and Tripartite Relations (1935–1943). War in History. https://doi.org/10.1177/0968344518777270
De Ninno, F. (2020, julio). A technological fiasco: Scientific research, institutional culture, and Fascism in the Italian Navy (1919–1940). The Journal of Military History.
De Ninno, F. (2020). Civili nella guerra totale (1940–1945). Una storia complessa.
De Ninno, F. (2020). A rising power facing multipolarity: Italian naval policy and strategy in the age of fascism. En R. Batchelor & P. D. Williams (Eds.), Navies in Multipolar Worlds: From the Age of Sail to the Present (pp. 131–151). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367855406-8
De Ninno, F. (2021, febrero 23). Italian civilian victims of war: Assistance, legislation and war pensions from fascism to republic. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 26(1), 114–130. https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571x.2020.1866288
De Ninno, F. (2021, octubre 16). Continental Naval Doctrines Between the Wars: The Impact of German Naval Experience on the Italian Navy (1919–1943). War in History, 29(4), 759–781. https://doi.org/10.1177/09683445211043405
De Ninno, F. (2022). Le vedove civili di guerra (1940–1945). Viella.
De Ninno, F. (2022). La marina e le guerre per mare. En A. Bianchi (Ed.), Guerre ed eserciti nell’età contemporanea.
De Ninno, F. (2022). Italian Sea Power and Suez—From Opportunity to Obsession (1861–1943). En M. C. Ianniello (Ed.), Italy and the Suez Canal, from the Mid-nineteenth Century to the Cold War: A Mediterranean History (pp. 309–333). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88255-6_14
De Ninno, F. (2022, noviembre 15). Health Care and Disease in Italy’s War, 1940–1945. En J. Dunne & S. Morgan (Eds.), The Peoples’ War? (pp. 171–194). https://doi.org/10.1515/9780228015895-007
De Ninno, F. (2023). Forze armate del fascismo e guerre: Alcune riflessioni sulla letteratura internazionale sul periodo 1922–1943. Italia Contemporanea, (302), 101–120. https://doi.org/10.3280/IC2023-302006
De Ninno, F. (2023). The Maritime Origins of the Italian Crisis of 1917. En J. A. McKenzie (Ed.), New Interpretations in Naval History.
De Ninno, F. (2024). The Republic and the Sea, Italia Contemporanea, (305), 83–105. https://doi.org/10.3280/IC2024-305006
De Ninno, F. (2024). Republican Italy and Maritime Security: From a State-Centric to a Postmodern Approach. Italia Contemporanea, (305). https://doi.org/10.3280/IC305-oa1
De Ninno, F., & Lacriola, M. (2025, marzo 15). Mussolini and ChatGPT: Examining the Risks of A.I. Writing Historical Narratives on Fascism. Journal of Modern Italian Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2025.2457250