Storiografico

Storiografico is an Italian adjective that denotes a relation to historiography, the discipline that studies how history is written, interpreted, and transmitted. The term stems from storiografia (the study of the writing of history) and the suffix -ico, which forms adjectives describing a quality or field.

In usage, storiografico is applied to analyses, methods, and works that focus on the construction of historical knowledge rather than solely on past events. Examples include phrases such as analisi storiografica, approccio storiografico, or prospettiva storiografica. The adjective helps distinguish between inquiries about historical phenomena (storia) and inquiries about how those phenomena have been described or interpreted in different times and contexts.

Storiografico is commonly used across disciplines—history, literature, archaeology, and the social sciences—to discuss biases, sources, frameworks, and schools of thought that shape historical narratives. It often appears in debates about revisionism, nationalist or ideological influences on historical writing, and the evolution of historiographical methods (for example, methodological shifts from narrative to analytical or from source-focused to theory-informed approaches).

The term is not synonymous with storico (historical or historian). While storico can describe things relating to history or denote a historian, storiografico specifically concerns the study and analysis of how history is written. In practice, it signals an emphasis on historiography, its practices, and its epistemological and interpretive dimensions.