Camilla Cederna
Camilla Cederna (21 January 1911 – 5 November 1997)[1] was an Italian writer and editor. She is said to have introduced investigative journalism to the Italian news media. Some sources give her year of birth as 1921.[2][3][4] Cederna was born and grew up in Milan. She was daughter of Giulio Cederna, a business manager and footballer, and brother to Antonio Cederna, a co-founder of Italia Nostra.[5]
Cederna studied Classic Literature at the University of Milan. In 1941, she helped founding the magazine L'Europeo. From 1958 to 1980, she was an editor and reporter for L'Espresso; in 1980, she joined Panorama magazine as an editor and columnist.[6] Her 1943 article La moda nera ("Black Fashion") about the clothes worn by women in the Italian fascist movement, originally published in Corriere della Sera on 7 September, led to her being put in prison.[7]
Cerderna is perhaps best known for her 1978 book Giovanni Leone: la carriera di un presidente (Giovanni Leone: The Career of a President), where she accused Italian president Giovanni Leone of being involved in a Lockheed bribery scandal; Leone was forced to resign but he later successfully sued Cederna for libel.[4] She died of cancer in Rome in 1997.[3]
Selected works
[edit]- Noi siamo le signore (We Are the Ladies) (1958)
- La voce dei padroni (The Voices of the Bosses) (1962)
- 8 1/2 di Federico Fellini (1963)
- Pinelli. Una finestra sulla strage (Pinelli: A Window on the Carnage) (1971), on the death of railroad worker and anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli
- Sparare a vista. Come la polizia del regime DC mantiene l'ordine pubblico (Shooting on Sight: How the Police of the Christian Democratic Government Maintain Order) (1975)
- Il mondo di Camilla, autobiography (1980)
- Casa nostra (1983)
- De gustibus (1986)
References
[edit]- ^ "5 novembre 1997. La scomparsa di Camilla Cederna". tgfuneral24.it. Retrieved 7 April 2022.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b Moliterno, Gino (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. p. 148. ISBN 1134758766.
- ^ a b c Marrone, Gaetana; Puppa, Paolo (2006). Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. Routledge. pp. 432–33. ISBN 1135455309.
- ^ a b "Obituary: Camilla Cederna". The Independent. 20 November 1997.
- ^ Cederna, Antonio; Erbani, Francesco. "I vandali in casa: Cinquant'anni" [Vandals in the house: Fifty years] (in Italian). Gius.Laterza & Figli Spa. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ^ Aricò, Santo L (1990). Contemporary Women Writers in Italy: A Modern Renaissance. p. 184. ISBN 0870237101.
- ^ "Cederna Camilla".
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- 1911 births
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- Italian non-fiction writers
- Deaths from cancer in Lazio
- Journalists from Milan
- University of Milan alumni
- 20th-century Italian women writers
- Italian women editors
- Italian women novelists
- Italian magazine editors
- Italian magazine founders
- Italian women journalists
- Women magazine editors
- 20th-century non-fiction writers