Giovanni Arduino (born 30 June 1970 in Turin) is a fiction writer, freelance editor, translator and consultant from Moncalieri, Turin, Italy.
His best-selling novels span various genres such as young adult, dark fantasy, modern fables, erotica and pop culture. Arduino's work has been published in Italy, the United States, Japan, Germany and Spain. Arduino has written under many different pseudonyms such as Joe Arden and Jonathan Snow but has mostly used his real name since 2003 for novels as Chiudimi le labbra (Lain Books, Rome, 2005) and Mai come voi (Sperling & Kupfer, Milan, 2004).
In October 2006 he left Sperling & Kupfer Editori for newborn Elliot Edizioni, Rome.
In September 2010 Giovanni Arduino left Elliot Edizioni (that he contributed to create), Vivalibri (the Elliot publisher he helped to grow) and Ultra (the hyper-pop Vivalibri imprint that spawned a nice quota of best-selling books).
Since October 2010 he's translating, editing and writing as a professional freelancer.
Franco Fontana is an Italian photographer. He is best known for his abstract colour landscapes.
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore is the biggest publishing company in Italy.
Giovanni Agnelli was an Italian businessman who founded the Fiat S.p.A. car manufacturing in 1899.
Aldo Busi is a contemporary Italian writer and translator, famous for his linguistic invention and for his polemic force as well as for some prestigious translations from English, German and ancient Italian that include Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Lewis Carroll, Christina Stead, Giovanni Boccaccio, Baldesar Castiglione, Friedrich Schiller, Joe Ackerley, John Ashbery, Heimito von Doderer, Ruzante, Meg Wolitzer, Paul Bailey, Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Claudio Treves was an Italian politician and journalist.
Elena Alexandrovna Kostioukovitch, is an essayist and literary translator. She is the winner of numerous literary awards, including the Best Translation of the Year in the USSR (1988), Zoil (1999), Grinzane Cavour Moscow (2004), Welcome Prize (2005) given by the Russian National Association of Restaurateurs, Bancarella (cucina) Award, Chiavari Literary Prize, and Premi Nazionali per la Traduzione. Resides with her husband and two children in Milan, Italy.
Franco Bolelli was an Italian philosopher. His philosophical influences included Nietzsche and Taoism.
Antonio Porta was an author and poet and one of the founders of the Italian literary movement Gruppo 63.
Paolo Alberto Brera was an Italian economist, academic, journalist, multilingual translator and novelist.
Dario De Toffoli is an Italian board game designer, gamebook author, and games player who founded the games company Studiogiochi and established many games events. Born in 1953 Venice, after an early career as a chemist he entered the world of games. Winner of over 60 medals at the Mind Sports Olympiad. He won the 2002 and 2012 Pentamind Competition for the best games all-rounder in the world. In 2006, he won a special award for his contribution to games which includes contribution to all aspects of games.
Paolo Savona is an Italian economist, professor, and politician. He was the Italian Minister of European Affairs from 1 June 2018 until 8 March 2019, his second stint in government after 1993–1994. During the 2010s, Savona became one of the most fervent Eurosceptic economists in Italy.
Gianni Minà was an Italian journalist, writer, magazine editor, and television host. He collaborated with both Italian and International newspapers and magazines; produced hundreds of reports for RAI ; conceived and hosted television programs, as well as produced successful documentary films on the lives of Che Guevara, Muhammad Ali, Fidel Castro, Rigoberta Menchú, Silvia Baraldini, Subcomandante Marcos and Diego Maradona.
The Democratic Fascist Party was a clandestine Italian fascist political party. The party is known mainly because its founder and some other members stole the dead body of Benito Mussolini from the Cimitero Maggiore in Milan.
Giorgio Agnelli was a member of the Agnelli family.
DonnaVirginia Bourbon del Monte dei principi di San Faustino was the wife of Edoardo Agnelli and the mother of Gianni Agnelli.
Anne Milano Appel is an American translator of Italian literature. She obtained a doctorate in Romance languages from Rutgers University in 1970. She has translated, among others, works by Claudio Magris, Paolo Giordano, Giovanni Arpino and Goliarda Sapienza. She was awarded the John Florio Prize in 2012 for her translation of Arpino's Scent of a Woman. She is also working on English translations of Giordano's Like Family, Syrian Dust by Francesca Borri and Don't Tell Me You're Afraid by Giuseppe Catozzella.
The Fasci di Azione Rivoluzionaria, abbreviated FAR, was an Italian neofascist paramilitary organization founded in 1946. FAR was the first neofascist group in Italy which led an armed struggle after the collapse of the Fascist Regime.
Rizzoli Libri, formerly Rizzoli Libri S.p.A. and RCS Libri S.p.A. is an Italian book publisher and a division of Mondadori Libri, a wholly owned subsidiary of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. RCS Libri was a former subsidiary of RCS MediaGroup, but in 2015, most of the book publishing division was sold to Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, with some imprints of RCS Libri, were either sold by RCS MediaGroup or Arnoldo Mondadori Editore to third parties, as part of an antitrust deal. RCS MediaGroup retained the brand Rizzoli for non-book publishing, while Arnoldo Mondadori Editore has the exclusive rights to use the brand Rizzoli in book publishing.
Nazareno Andrea De Angelis or Nanni was an Italian militant and politician and a leader of Terza Posizione.
Vittorio Camerana was an Italian general who commanded the III Army Corps of World War I. At the end of the war, he was promoted to General of the Army Corps and decorated with the Grand Officer Cross of the Military Order of Savoy.
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