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Indro Montanelli
Indro Alessandro Raffaello Schizogene Montanelli was an Italian journalist, historian, and writer.
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culture · Italian journalist and historian (1909–2001) · journalist · writer · screenwriter · film director · historian · opinion journalist · also Indro Montanelli, Indro Alessandro Raffaello Schizogene Montanelli, Montanelli
Born 22 April 1909 · Died 22 July 2001 · Q327914
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2026· 7 entries
“As an old soldier, and even if from an army very different from his, I know very well that you could not do anything different from what you did.”
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“I struggled a lot to overcome her smell, due to the goat tallow with which her hair was soaked, and even more to establish a sexual relationship with her because she had been infibulated at birth, which, in addition to putting up an almost insurmountable barrier to my wishes (it took the mother”
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“until they had been given culture.”
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“I think I chose well. She was a beautiful girl of 12 years. I”
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“If you lack the holy fire inside, if you”
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“it had been a long military walk with only one enemy: the heat”
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2017· 1 entry
Bettiza said that Montanelli despised the bourgeoisie he defended and admired the communists he attacked
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2001· 8 entries
Died 2001-07-22.
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“I have never dreamt of contesting the Church her right to remain faithful to herself, meaning to the commandments that come from Doctrine... but that she expects to impose these commandments upon me who do not have the good fortune of being a believer, trying to pour them into civil law in a way that they become obligatory even to us non-believers, is it right? To me it doesn't seem so.”
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“[Addressed to Berlusconi who wanted to impose himself on the editorial style of "Il Giornale"] In the art of entrepreneurship, you are certainly a genius, and I an asshole. But in the art of argument the genius is me, and you the asshole.”
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“Let not the usual abstract arguments be brought to me, like the sacredness of life: no one contests the right of everyone to arrange their own life, I don't see why their own death has to be contested.”
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“Quando mi viene in mente un bell'aforisma, lo metto in conto a Montesquieu, od a La Rochefoucauld. Non si sono mai lamentati.”
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“No, Travaglio kills no one. With a knife. He uses a weapon much more refined and unendictable in court: the archive.”
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“Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.”
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“When a nice quote comes to mind, I always attribute it to Montesquieu, or to La Rochefoucauld. They've never complained.”
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded International Press Institute World Press Freedom Heroes (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
During the trial of the Nazi captain Theodor Saevecke for the Piazzale Loreto massacre, Montanelli was cited by the defence as a witness
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1996· 3 entries
Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities (1996).
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Sent a letter to the former Nazi officer Erich Priebke, whom he revered as "Mr
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That he had previously denied, retained great esteem for Montanelli and defended his marriage with the young girl
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1995).
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1994· 3 entries
Awarded International Editor of the Year Award (1994).
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After which he returned to the Corriere della Sera in 1995, and worked there until his death
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Montanelli was awarded the International Editor of the Year Award from the World Press Review
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Ischia International Journalism Award (1980).
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1977· 1 entry
The Red Brigades terrorist group kneecapped him; however, he forgave them years later
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1973· 1 entry
Due to a perceived turn to the left, Montanelli worked as the editor-in-chief of Silvio Berlusconi-owned newspaper il Giornale for many years
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1972· 1 entry
With the abrupt dismissal of director Giovanni Spadolini
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1969· 1 entry
“Excuse me. But in Africa it was another thing.”
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Bancarella Literary Prize (1967).
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1963).
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1959· 1 entry
Montanelli interviewed for the first time in history a pope, who at the time was Pope John XXIII; the pope declared that he picked Montanelli exactly because he was an atheist and not a Catholic sympathizer
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1951· 1 entry
Awarded Bagutta Prize (1951).
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1945· 1 entry
While hiding in Switzerland, he published the novel Drei Kreuze (Three Crosses), which later appeared in Italian with the title Qui non-riposano (Here They Do Not Rest)
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1944· 1 entry
And his wife were discovered and arrested by Nazi authorities
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1938· 2 entries
To Montanelli the job of director of the Institute of Culture in Tallinn, Estonia, and lecturer in Italian at the University of Tartu, Estonia
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And distinguished himself as a liberal-conservative for many decades
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1935· 2 entries
With the intent of making Italy an empire (Second Italo–Abyssinian War), Montanelli abandoned his collaboration with the United Press and became a voluntary conscript for this war
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When Mussolini ordered the suppression of Universale and other publications that expressed critical views of fascism
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1934· 1 entry
In Paris that Montanelli began writing for the crime pages of the daily newspaper Paris-Soir as a foreign correspondent in Norway, where he briefly worked as a fisherman, and later in Canada, where he ended up working on
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1933· 1 entry
Studied at Istituto Cesare Alfieri, laurea (1933).
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1932· 1 entry
For the Universale, a magazine published once every fortnight, offering no pay
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1930· 1 entry
Writing a thesis on the electoral reform of Benito Mussolini’s Fascist regime
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1909· 1 entry
Born 1909-04-22.
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