Arrigo Petacco
Born | Arrigo Petacco August 7, 1929 Castelnuovo Magra, Kingdom of Italy |
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Died | April 3, 2018 Porto Venere, Italy | (aged 88)
Occupation | Writer, journalist, historian |
Language | Italian |
Period | 20th–21st century |
Arrigo Petacco (7 August 1929 – 3 April 2018) was an Italian writer, historian and journalist.
Life and activities
Petacco was special envoy, editor-in-chief and executive director of La Nazione and La Storia Illustrata, and author of the homonymous monthly television program on the RAI.[1]
He began his journalistic career at Il Lavoro, a newspaper published in Genoa, directed by Sandro Pertini. Prolific historical writer, experienced journalist, he wrote several film plots[2] and made numerous television programs, especially for RAI, the Italian main public service broadcaster. In his career as a journalist has interviewed some of the protagonists of the Second World War.[1]
In 1957, Petacco married Lucetta De Martino with whom he had two daughters: Monica, who lives in Rome, and Carlotta, living in Milan. He is widowed since 1989. Since then he lives alone in Portovenere, near La Spezia.[1]
In 1983, he won the Saint Vincent award for journalism and in 2006 received the Capo d'Orlando prize for journalism. Petacco died on 3 April 2018 of liver cancer at the age of 88.[3][4]
Selected works
- L'esodo: la tragedia negata degli italiani d'Istria, Dalmazia e Venezia Giulia. Milano, Mondadori, 1999.
- A tragedy revealed: the story of the Italian population of Istria, Dalmatia, and Venezia Giulia, 1942–1956 Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Notes
- ^ a b c from Arrigo Petacco's official site Archived 23 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian)
- ^ partial Petacco's filmography available at IMDB website
- ^ "Morto Arrigo Petacco, giornalista e storico". 4 March 2018.
- ^ "E' morto Arrigo petacco".
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