Gioacchino Volpe (16 February 1876 – 1 October 1971) was an Italian historian and, during the years between the two world wars, a politician.

Born in Paganica, Volpe graduated in Letters at the University of Pisa, and in 1906 he became professor of modern history at the Scientific-Literary Academy of Milan [it].^[1] A nationalist, he supported the Fascism and in 1924 was elected deputy with the National List.^[1] He was General Secretary of the Royal Academy of Italy from 1929 to 1934 and member of the Accademia dei Lincei from 1935 to 1946.^[1] Between 1924 and 1940 he was professor of modern history at the University of Rome.^[1]

In his works Volpe depicted the history of Italy as a rising process culminated in fascism.^[1] After the Greco-Italian War, his attitude towards fascism gradually became critical and distant.^[1] After the war, he was purged from the university teaching and focused on his studies.^[1]

• Innocenzo Cervelli. Gli Storici: Gioacchino Volpe. Guida, 2008. ISBN 8860425751.
• Paola Cavina, Lorenzo Grilli. Gaetano Salvemini e Gioacchino Volpe: dalla storia medievale alla storia contemporanea. Edizioni della Normale, 2008. ISBN 8876422188.
• Eugenio Di Rienzo. La storia e l'azione: vita politica di Gioacchino Volpe. Le Lettere, 2008. ISBN 8860871069.
• Roberto Bonuglia. Gioacchino Volpe tra passato e presente. Aracne, 2007. ISBN 8854814121.
• Lorenzo Grilli. Gioacchino Volpe nello specchio del suo Archivio. I. Qualcosa se ne salvò. La tesi di laurea e le lezioni su Bonifacio VIII. 2020. ISBN 9791220050807.
• Lorenzo Grilli. Gioacchino Volpe nello specchio del suo Archivio. II. Qualcosa se ne salvò. L'"opera ... che non è stata mai scritta" e le lezioni di storiografia. 2020. ISBN 9791220052030.