Roberto Gervaso
Roberto Gervaso (9 July 1937 – 2 June 2020) was an Italian writer and journalist. He won the Premio Bancarella twice: for L'Italia dei Comuni in 1967, and for Cagliostro in 1973. Gervaso was born in Turin where he grew up.
Roberto Gervaso
- Name
- Roberto Gervaso
- Born
- 9 July 1937
- Birthplace
- Rome, Kingdom of Italy
- Place of death
- Milan, Italy
- Occupation
- * Writer
- Nationality
- Italy
- Education
- University of Turin
- Honours
- Bancarella Literary Prize
- Languages
- Italian · English
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He started working as an editor and staff writer at Corriere della Sera in 1960. He subsequently moved to Rome where he became a freelance journalist and columnist, contributing to Il Mattino, Il Messaggero and Il Giornale. In the late 1960s Gervaso co-authored with his mentor and former editor at Corriere, Indro Montanelli, six of the nine volumes of Storia d'Italia. In the mid-1970s he worked as a broadcaster and television presenter at RAI and Canale 5.
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• Name — Roberto Gervaso • Born — 9 July 1937 • Birthplace — Rome, Kingdom of Italy • Place of death — Milan, Italy • Occupation — * Writer • journalist
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• Italy in the Golden Centuries (with Indro Montanelli), Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C., 1967. • Cagliostro: A Biography, Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1974. • Claretta: The Woman Who Died for Mussolini, Summerstown Books, London, 2002.
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