Marcello Sorgi Explained

Marcello Sorgi
Birth Name:Marcello Sorgi
Birth Date:31 March 1955
Birth Place:Palermo, Italy
Nationality:Italian
Spouse:Anna Chimenti
Height:1.73m (05.68feet)
Occupation:Journalist

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]

Notes and References

  1. Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. Catalogo dei viventi. Marsilio, 2009. .
  2. News: Mussolini's daughter's affair with communist revealed in love letters. 30 August 2014. The Daily Telegraph. 17 April 2009.
  3. News: Fulvia Caprara. Edda Ciano e il comunista l'amore vince la politica. 30 August 2014. La Stampa. 11 March 2011.
  4. News: Redazione online. Le amanti del vulcano in un triangolo di fuoco. 30 August 2014. Il Tempo. 23 April 2010.