Francesco Corrado Frasca was born in 1955 in Treviso, Veneto (Italy). «Ex antiquissima stirpe nortmannica oriundus».
His work experience includes service with Italy's Ministry for Defence. As a professional analyst of national strategic policy, he has also worked as a research fellow for the Military Centre for Strategic Studies (CeMiSS) and lecturer at the Maritime War Institute (IGM).
In 1980 Professor Frasca graduated from the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Padua (Major in Economics), from where he moved to France to pursue postgraduate studies. He holds a Master's degree in social history, a PhD in sociology from EHESS-Paris, and a PhD in modern history from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne. He taught Military and Naval History at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and conducted seminars at the Universities of Paris IV, Paris I and Malta. In 2011, he was regularly appointed as a non-external examiner in the Department of History for the M.A. in Hospitallers Studies Dissertations at the Faculty of Arts, University of Malta. His current research interests include Military History, Naval and Maritime History, Military architecture, fortification and fieldwork in Early modern Europe.
Author of seven published books and seventy research papers, he is currently a member of Société Française d'Histoire Maritime (SFHM) member. Dr Frasca has also been associated with academic and research institutes: Commission Française d'Histoire Militaire (CFHM), International Intelligence History Association (IIHA) and the International Heraldry Society.
La Liberté en Italie vue par les artistes du dépôt de la guerre 1796-1797, dessins et aquerelles de la collection du ministre de la Défense, 1996, Service historique de l'armée de Terre, ISBN2-86323-094-8, exhibition catalogue.
La cartografia militare dei territori del Veneto, del Friuli Venezia Giulia, dell'Istria e della Dalmazia, in età napoleonica, 1997, Arti Grafiche Friulane, Tavagnacco-Udine.
Les Italiens dans l'armée française: recrutement et incorporation (1796-1814), 1 st ed. 2008, Lulu Enterprises UK Ltd, ISBN978-1-4092-2960-5, 2 nd ed. 2009, Lulu.com, ISBN978-1-4092-9443-6.
Il sorgere delle potenze atlantiche. Mercantilismo e guerra dalla fine del 1500 agli ultimi decenni del 1700, Morrisville, North Carolina: Lulu Press Inc., 2018, ISBN978-1-2918-5178-6, 2 nd ed. 2021, Morrisville, North Carolina: Lulu Press Inc., ISBN978-1-4475-0534-1, 3 rd ed. 2022, Morrisville, North Carolina: Lulu Press Inc., ISBN978-1-4717-0039-2, 4 nd ed. 2022, Morrisville, North Carolina: Lulu Press Inc., ISBN978-1-4716-9018-1.
Caption text
Francesco Frasca at the 71st Venice International Film Festival