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Giordano Bruno Guerri
BornGiordano Bruno Guerri
December 21, 1950
Monticiano, province of Siena, Italy
OccupationNovelist, journalist, historian, professor
Period1976–present
Notable worksPovera santa, povero assassino (1980)
Antistoria degli italiani (1997)
Il Sangue del Sud – Antistoria del Risorgimento e del Brigantaggio (2010)
SpousesPaola Veneto
ChildrenNicola and Pietro
Website
giordanobrunoguerri.it

Giordano Bruno Guerri (21 December 1950 in Monticiano, Siena, Italy) is an italian writer, journalist and historian.

Personal life

Giordano Bruno Guerri was born in Siena province, son of Gina Guerri and Febo Anselmi, aka Ebo,[1] whose surname took after legal divorce introduction in Italy, allowing second wedding with Mrs Guerri, and after skipping the military service duty as unique son of unmarried mother.[2] His family was of religious principles and gave him a catholic education. After his first studies in in Colle di Val d'Elsa, he relocated with his family in Bollate (Milan hinterland), then attended Modern Literature course at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. At the beginning of his studies he worked as a Copy editing for the Milanese editor Garzanti, then as a freelance and until 1980 as an employee. In 1974 concluded his studies with a work about Giuseppe Bottai.[3]

In 1985 he was appointed chief editor of the monthly magazine La Storia Illustrata, whose sales it increased from 60,000 to 110,000 per issue in 15 months. In 1986 he was publishing director at Mondadori. From 1989 to 1991 he was chief editor of the monthly magazine Chorus . In 1995 he went to Rome, where is a journalist for RAI. From April 2004 to February 2005 was Director of the Milanese newspaper L'Indipendente.

Guerri taught Contemporary History at the 'Università Guglielmo Marconi' 'in Rome. He also taught regularly the same time at the Faculties of Political Science at the Universities of Salerno, Madrid, Geneva, Rio de Janeiro and at Columbia University in New York. From March 2003 up to 2007 he was president of Fondazione Ugo Bordoni. From 2008 is President of the Vittoriale degli italiani foundation.
From 2015 is Presidente of Fondazione Opera pia Carità laicale e Director of MuSa, Museo di Salò. He is an opinionist of the newspaper Il Giornale. He founded a cultural movement, "Italiani Liberi", about "euroskepictism and free thinking, and the Internet news site www.italianiliberi.it.[4]

Writings

In 1976 Feltrinelli published his first work, his university Master thesis titled Giuseppe Bottai, un fascista critico. In 2010 published the book Il Sangue del Sud – Antistoria del Risorgimento e del Brigantaggio, a critic representation of Italian Unification.

  • Author
    • Giuseppe Bottai, un fascista critico, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1976.
    • Galeazzo Ciano. Una vita. (1903–1944), Bompiani, Milano, 1979.
    • L'Arcitaliano. Vita di Curzio Malaparte, Bompiani, Milano, 1980.
    • Italo Balbo, Vallardi, Milan, 1984.
    • Povera santa, povero assassino, Mondadori, Milano, 1985.
    • Galeazzo Ciano, (III edizione aggiornata e ridotta), Bompiani, Milano, 1985.
    • Giuseppe Bottai, Diario (1944–1948), Rizzoli, Milano, 1988.
    • L'Arcitaliano. Vita di Curzio Malaparte, Leonardo, Milano, 1991.
    • Gli italiani sotto la Chiesa, Mondadori, Milano, 1992.
    • Io ti assolvo, Baldini & Castoldi, Milano, 1993.
    • Fascisti – Gli italiani di Mussolini, il regime degli italiani, Mondadori, Milano, 1995.
    • Giuseppe Bottai, fascista, Mondadori, Milano, 1996.
    • Antistoria degli italiani, Mondadori, Milano, 1997.
    • Il Malaparte illustrato, Mondadori, Milano, 1998.
    • Eretico e profeta. Ernesto Buonaiuti, un prete contro la Chiesa, Mondadori, Milano, 2001.
    • Un amore fascista – Benito, Edda e Galeazzo, Mondadori, 2005.
    • Pensieri scorretti, UTET libreria, 2007
    • Povera santa, povero assassino. La vera storia di Maria Goretti, Bompiani, Milano, 2008.
    • D'Annunzio, l'amante guerriero, Mondadori, Milano, 2008.
    • Filippo Tommaso Marinetti,Invenzioni, avventure e passioni di un rivoluzionario, Mondadori, Milano, 2009.
    • Follia? Vita di Vincent van Gogh, Bompiani, Milano, 2009.
    • Il Sangue del Sud – Antistoria del Risorgimento e del Brigantaggio, Mondadori, Milano, 2010.
    • Il bosco nel cuore. Lotte e amori delle brigantesse che difesero il Sud, Milano, Mondadori, 2011. ISBN 978-88-04-61371-8.
    • Ebo e Gina, Milano, RCS Quotidiani, 2011.
    • La mia vita carnale. Amori e passioni di Gabriele d'Annunzio, Milano, Mondadori, 2013. ISBN 978-88-04-62627-5.
    • Con d'Annunzio al Vittoriale, fotografie di Lorenzo Capellini, Bologna, Minerva, 2015. I SBN 978-88-73-81-646-1.
    • Il Vittoriale degli Italiani. Guida alla visita, Milano, SilvanaEdiotriale, 2015. ISBN 978-88-3663-089-9.
  • Editor
    • Rapporto al Duce, Tascabili Bompiani, Milano, 1978.
    • Giuseppe Bottai, Diario (1935–1944), Rizzoli, Milano, 1982.
    • Luigi Bolla, Perché a Salò, Bompiani, Milano, 1982.
    • Patrizio Peci, Io, l'infame, Mondadori, Milano, 1983.
    • Winston Churchill (raccontate da), Le grandi battaglie della seconda guerra mondiale, Milano, A. Mondadori, 1994. ISBN 88-04-38912-5.
    • Winston Churchill (raccontati da), I grandi protagonisti della seconda guerra mondiale, Milano, A. Mondadori, 1995. ISBN 88-04-39127-8.
    • Gian Franco Venè (raccontata da), La vita quotidiana degli italiani durante il fascismo, Milano, A. Mondadori, 1995. ISBN 88-04-40200-8.
    • Ida Magli, Per una rivoluzione italiana, Baldini & Castoldi, Milano, 1996.

References

  1. ^ About his family history he wrote the book Ebo e Gina
  2. ^ As son of unknown father I tell you: blessed law
  3. ^ G.B. Guerri. Giuseppe Bottai, un fascista critico. 1976.
  4. ^ Giordano Bruno Guerri si racconta
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