Dead Eugenio Scalfari. The founder of Repubblica was 98 years old

Eugenio Scalfari died at the age of 98. Journalist and founder of Repubblica, who gave news on social media and in the online edition. “Hi Eugenio, a century of journalism and civil passion” wrote Ezio Mauro, former editor of the newspaper. Scalfari was born in Civitavecchia on April 6, 1924 and was the first director-manager of Italian publishing, also creator of “L’Espresso”. After his youth in Sanremo, where he had Italo Calvino as a classmate in high school, he began writing in some fascist magazines, only to be expelled as he was considered an ambush.

The carreer

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Graduated in law, in 1950 Scalfari began his journalistic career as a collaborator of “Il Mondo” by Mario Pannunzio and “L’Europeo” by Arrigo Benedetti. In 1955 he participated with the group of the “Friends of the World” in the foundation of the Radical Party, of which he held the position of National Deputy Secretary (1958-63). He was also a deputy between 1968 and 1972 elected as an independent, on the PSI list. In 1955 he was the founder of L’Espresso, which he directed from 1963 to ’68. And on January 14, 1976, the first issue of the newspaper “La Repubblica” came out, of which he was the founding director until 1996, remaining then honorary director and columnist.

The books

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Author of journalistic investigation books for years, he then became the author of existential and philosophical reflections. And in addition to being a protagonist in the history of journalism, he has become part of that of the Italian language, so much so that the adjective “Scalfariano” has entered the Treccani Vocabulary and also in other dictionaries.