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Welcome to my web site. If you enjoy curious and amazing stories founded on reality that often you can't see but it does exist, maybe you are in the right place. First of all let me introduce myself. I was born in 1949 in Genoa, in the Northern part of Italy, and I studied political science at the University of Genoa before I was drafted and became sergeant in the Bersaglieri Corp. Later I moved to Florida where I earned a degree in journalism. Upon returning to Italy, I began my writing career at Corriere Mercantile, an afternoon newspaper in Genoa. In 1980 I passed the State examination and became a professional journalist. Meantime I also attended the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies at the Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria. In 1982 I was hired in the Genoa editorial office of the national newspaper Il Giornale, directed by Indro Montanelli, and later joined the foreign I staff in the main editorial office in Milan. Back to Genoa I was deputy chief editor until the end of 2007, when I retired. At present I continue to review books and I have a weekly literary column on Il Giornale.
So far I published five books. The first was The Zanfretta Case with four editions: 1984 (Alkaest Publisher); 1997, 2006 and 2008 (De Ferrari Publisher). From this book the Rai Tv, the Italian National Tv broadcasting, made a two episodes Tv fiction (that you can preview here).
The second was Alcibiades (Ecig, 1993), a translation from English to Italian of the Alcibiades biography by professor Walter M. Ellis of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.
The third was The Viral Solution (De Ferrari Publisher, 2000), a novel about the Aids spread in the USA. This book, translated into English, has been published by Amazon on July 2008 in the USA and all the world.
The fourth one was "My dear Marion…" (De Ferrari Publisher, 2004), a book about 40 unpublished letters from 1926 to 1949 of past Italian President Sandro Pertini to his sister Marion. This book on 2006 has been choosed by the National Chinese Library in Pechin to get richer his own international books property.
The last one was Over the Horizon (De Ferrari Publisher, 2006), a book between news and politics about Hon. Claudio Scajola, past Minister for three times, then president of the Parliamentary Committee to control the Italian Secret Services (Copaco), and at present Minister for the Economic Development.
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