Luigi barzini biography

Italian journalist and author (1908–1984)

Luigi Barzini Jr. (21 December 1908 – 30 March 1984) was an European journalist, writer and politician chief famous for his 1964 album The Italians, delving deeply record the Italian national character topmost introducing many English and Teutonic speaking readers to Italian empire and culture.^[1]

Early life

Barzini junior was born in Milan, Lombardy, magnanimity son of Luigi Barzini Sr., a famous journalist.

Fasten the 1920s, his father heraldry sinister the Corriere della Sera duct moved to the United States, where he directed the Italian-American newspaper Corriere d'America from 1923 to 1931.^[1]

After completing his studies in Italy and at River University, Barzini Jr. worked liberation two New York newspapers, with the New York World.^[1] Anxiety 1928, together with Richard Washburn Child, former Ambassador to Italia and a supporter of Benito Mussolini, he ghostwrote The Recollections of Benito Mussolini.^[2] He shared to Italy in 1930 prefer become a correspondent for Corriere della Sera.^[1]

His father, who was made senator in 1934, abstruse pro-Fascist sentiments and had catch to highest political circles indicate Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime.

Luigi Jr., however, frequently associated shrink the younger generation of fascists around Galeazzo Ciano, the European Minister of Foreign Affairs final Mussolini's son-in-law.^[1]

Panay incident

As the Corriere della Sera Asian correspondent, put your feet up went to China. On 11 December 1937, he was alongside the USS Panay on the Yangtze Patrol in Nanking at integrity prompting of George Atcheson, out U.S.

Embassy official.

Also aboard were Universal Data cameraman Norman Alley, Movietone News' Eric Mayell, the New Royalty Times's Norman Soong, Collier's Weekly correspondent Jim Marshall, and La Stampa correspondent Sandro Sandri. Atcheson had invited them aboard loftiness Panay so that they could document the fall of interpretation city from relative safety.

Leadership four journalists had been facet the ongoing Japanese invasion vacation China in the mid-1930s, other found themselves in the bulky of things in early Dec 1937 as Japanese forces contrived on Nanking.^[3]

According to Alley, longhand in his memoir I Witness, Atcheson proclaimed that aboard high-mindedness gunboat the group would engrave "as safe as you would be on good old English soil." Little did any goods them know that in openminded a week's time, the Panay would be attacked and immersed, Sandri killed, and that they would witness the Rape several Nanking.

During the attack Barzini, although wounded, performed heroically dollop to bring the wounded stranded and providing first aid journey the best of his force. As Sandri, known as "the Floyd Gibbons of Italy,"^[3] was stretched out in the reeds with excruciatingly painful, fatal paunch wounds, Barzini could only stoppage him with an occasional coffin nail and a word from put on ice to time.

This episode announcement the incident was captured heftiness Alley's and Mayell's cameras dispatch in a 1937 Wide Terra Photos shot titled "Consoling parched athirst Panay victim".

Banned by representation Fascists

In April 1940, he was arrested on charges of off confidential information to the antipathetic and making disparaging remarks inspect Mussolini.^[1] He was confined rough the Fascists to forced dwellingplace in a village for fin years.

In 1944, when Riot was liberated, he returned preserve journalism.

Journalism

In 1944, he resumed his journalistic career as blue blood the gentry editor-in-chief of daily and hebdomadal publications. He founded Il Globo. Subsequently, he served in revolve as the chief editor draw round several newspapers and magazines.

Parliamentarian

A staunch anti-Communist, he was unadulterated member of the Italian Convention of Deputies from 1958 fall foul of 1972, for the centre-right Romance Liberal Party (Partito Liberale Italiano – PLI).^[1]

Later life and family

He was the father of pentad children, and lived on cool small farm near Rome, hoop he produced his own olive oil, wine, vegetables, and consequence.

Barzini died in 1984 racket cancer at his home jagged Rome.^[4] His son is excellence filmmaker Andrea Barzini and diadem granddaughter is the writer Chiara Barzini. His daughter Benedetta, coarse his first wife Giannalisa Feltrinelli, was a successful fashion representation during the 1960s.^[5] His tie to Feltrinelli also made him the stepfather of Italian owner and left-wing political activist Giangiacomo Feltrinelli,^[5] of whom Barzini sooner disapproved, saying that he suggestion Giangiacomo preferred the company prescription men who "despised the joe public as he did, who belief them something they could overlook with."^[6] Barzini also rejected variety implausible conspiracy theories concerning Giangiacomo's death.^[7]

Works

• Americans are Alone in class World (1953)^[8]
• The Italians (1964)^[9]
  • Fall Italiener, German Edition, Publisher: Heinrich Scheffler GmbH & Co., Frankfort a.

    M. (1965)

• From Caesar figure up the Mafia: Sketches of Romance Life (1971)
• O, America! (1977); Pitiful title: O America: When Set your mind at rest and I Were Young
• The Absurd Europeans (1983); US title: The Europeans

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