He is a scholar of the contemporary age, student of historians Giorgio Spini and Sergio Bertelli, in whose scientific work he collaborated, dealing with researches on the 19^th and 20^th century. A CNR scholarship holder in 1995-1996, he worked on documentary material from the Soviet archives of the Comintern and the Bolshevik Communist Party. He has been involved in historiography and bibliographical research and has done studies and publications on the history of socialism and the Action Party, on the Italian ruling class from Fascism to the present day, on peasant childhood in the sharecropping system of the 20th century and on Don Lorenzo Milani and the Barbiana school.

He published articles and essays in specialised magazines come “Rivista storica italiana”, “Argomenti storici”, “Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica”, », «Lettera ai compagni», «Testimonianze». Among his work, the most important are: Riccardo Lombardi, l’ingegnere del socialismo italiano (1992), L’interpretazione della seconda guerra mondiale nella manualistica di orientamento marxista (con M. Amadori e A. Esposito) «Argomenti storici» (1/1993), Il mondo politico, in S. Bertelli, Gli inossidabili. Come si diventa “signori” con la politica (1996), Il PSI dalla ricostruzione del dopoguerra alla “rivoluzione generazionale” del Midas, «Laburista notizie» (2/2003).

He is member of the Board of Directors of the Circolo di Cultura Politica 'Fratelli Rosselli', of the Board of Directors of the Centro di Studi Storici 'C. Francovich', of the Board of Directors of the Istituto Socialista di Studi Storici. Since September 2001, he has been President of the cultural institution Centro Documentazione don Lorenzo Milani e Scuola di Barbiana.