How I Discovered Murray Rothbard

It was 1995, and I was a young scholar, an assistant professor of history of political thought at Roma Tre University. My professor encouraged me to study the American feminist movement of the nineteenth century. As young scholars usually do, I wrote a research project and submitted it for a fellowship at the Italian Center for Research (CNR). Thanks to my professor I was invited as a visiting scholar to the Department of History at Princeton University by Professor Nell Irving Painter, who taught women’s and blacks’ history. I got the CNR scholarship, and in the spring of 1995 I left for Princeton. In the meanwhile, something new had happened in my life. I had met Professor Dario Antiseri, one of the most preeminent classical liberal Italian philosophers, and he realized that actually, maybe for my familiar cultural environment, I had a passion for classical liberalism. At this point he proposed that I join, as a research fellow, his Centro di Metodologia delle Scienze Sociali at Luiss University, my alma mater. The center was devoted to research in the Austrian school of economics. Dario Antiseri knew that I was leaving for Princeton, and just the day before my flight he called me and gave me the idea of looking for those American scholars who attended Ludwig von Mises’s seminar at New York University (after Mises migrated to the US). He suggested a book which could have been

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