Alfredo Pieroni | |
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| Alfredo Pieroni's grave | |
| Born | May 14, 1923 Trieste, Italy |
| Died | September 28, 2011 (aged 88) Trento, Italy |
| Spouses | Oriana Fallaci; Lucia Salmi |
Alfredo Pieroni (14 May 1923 - 28 September 2011) was an Italian journalist and essayist. In 1975, he became the director of Il Resto del Carlino , a Bologna-based mass-circulation daily newspaper, staying in this charge for two years. He was, in 1958, Oriana Fallaci's partner.
Born in Trieste [1] in 1923, he moved to Rome with his family, where he graduated.[ clarification needed ] He began working as a reporter for Corriere della Sera , Resto del Carlino, and Gazzetta del Popolo .
He moved to Bonn and then to London as a correspondent for La Settimana Incom ; there, in 1958, he met Oriana Fallaci, [2] with whom he began a romantic relationship.
Pieroni died in 2011 and is buried in the monumental cemetery of Trento. [3]