Beniamino Placido

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Beniamino Placido (1 February [1] 1929 – 6 January 2010) was an Italian journalist, writer, and television critic.

Biography

Placido was a columnist on Italian culture for the newspaper La Repubblica and wrote three best selling books on television in the 1990s.

Placido died on 6 January 2010 at his home in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. [2]

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