Marcello Sorgi | |
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Born | Marcello Sorgi 31 March 1955 |
Nationality | Italian |
Occupation | Journalist |
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
Spouse(s) | Anna Chimenti |
Marcello Sorgi (born 31 March 1955) is an Italian journalist and author.
Born in Palermo, the son of a criminal defense lawyer, Sorgi started his career as a journalist for the newspaper L'Ora , and then he worked Il Messaggero and La Stampa . [1] In 1996 he became the director of RAI TV's TG1, then in 1998, left the office, he was the director of La Stampa until 2005. [1]
In 2000 Sorgi released a book-length interview with Sicilian novelist Andrea Camilleri, La testa ci fa dire. [1] In 2009 he wrote the book Edda Ciano and the Communist in which he tells the illicit love story between Edda Ciano, Benito Mussolini's daughter, and a regional communist leader, Leonida Bongiorno, which had as its background on the Isle of Lipari. [2] The book was adapted into a film with the same name, directed by Graziano Diana and starred by Alessandro Preziosi and Stefania Rocca. [3]
In 2010, Sorgi wrote Le amanti del vulcano (The Volcano Lovers), a historical reconstruction of the love triangle between Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman and Anna Magnani. [4]
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