# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alessandro-orsini
# Generated: 2026-09-02T01:37:29.102Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alessandro-orsini"
name: "Alessandro Orsini"
slug: "alessandro-orsini"
description: "Alessandro Orsini is an Italian sociologist and scholar of terrorism who is an associate professor at LUISS University. He is the author of several works, most notably L'eretico della sinistra (2004), Anatomy of the Red Brigades (2009), and Sacrifice: My Life in a Fascist Militia (2017), attracting both praise and criticism. In the 2020s, he attracted controversy for his views over the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the broader Russo-Ukrainian war."
tagline: "Italian sociologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alessandro_Orsini_(sociologist)_2013-05-02.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1975-04-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 182
totalFollowers: 210000
platforms:
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    title: "Alessandro Orsini (saggista)"
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    title: "الساندرو اورسینی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Alessandro Orsini"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump