I/10, Abteilung für bilaterale Angelegenheiten Stand: Juni 2005 ITALIEN Ministry for Culture Minister of Culture Via del Collegio Romano 27 - 00186 ROMA Tel +39-0667231 www.beniculturali.it Rocco BUTTIGLIONE e-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Born 6 June 1948 in Gallipoli (province of Lecce) Married and father of four daughters Education: - He lives in Rome, where he is Full Professor of political science at Saint Pius V University. - He studied law in Turin and Rome, where he took his degree with a thesis in the history of political doctrines under Professor Augusto Del Noce. He became Prof. Noce's assistant and friend, and established an intellectual collaboration with him that would last for more than twenty years. - He has concerned himself with philosophy, social ethics, economics, and politics at the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein; he also served as the Academy's Acting Chancellor and gave lectures and seminars on ethics at the Catholic University of Lublin, which awarded him an honorary degree in philosophy in May 1994. - He has been engaged in courses, seminars, meetings and lectures in the United States sponsored in collaboration with the most authoritative representatives of the American intelligentsia. - He frequents the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., directed by M. Novak, the G. Weigel Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, the Action Institute of R. Sirico in Michigan, and the Religion and Public Life Institute of R. Neuhaus in New York. - He is a member of the editorial boards of numerous Italian and foreign journals and editorialist with various daily newspapers. - Elected Deputy in May 2001 for Division III (Lombardy 1), District 10, Milan. .