Giorgio Bocca
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Giorgio Valentino Bocca (28 August 1920 – 25 December 2011) was an Italian essayist and journalist, also known for his participation in the World War II partisan movement.[1]
Biography
Bocca was born in
Having begun his press career in Cuneo, Bocca wrote for Giustizia and Libertà's magazine during the post-war period. Later, he worked for the Gazzetta del Popolo, L'Europeo and Il Giorno, analyzing Italian culture and politics. In 1971 he was amongst those who signed a document issued by the magazine L'Espresso against police chief Luigi Calabresi after the death of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, soon after killed by a terrorist group of far-left named Lotta Continua. Five years later, Bocca was among the founders of the daily La Repubblica, with which he thenceforth collaborated.
He also wrote several books, in most of which he denounces the social and political problems of Italy. He repeatedly took a critical stance against globalization, the foreign policy of U.S. oil corporations and the rise of right-wing political parties allied with Forza Italia led by Silvio Berlusconi.
Bocca died in Milan on 25 December 2011.
Controversies
When Bocca was an apprentice journalist, aged 19, he wrote an article denouncing what he called "Zionist imperialism" by paraphrasing the
Some critics of Bocca's History of the Resistance, an extensive study of the partisan movement in Italy, argue that he passed over crucial facts such as the Porzûs massacre, in which roughly 17 soldiers in the Osoppo brigade were mown down by a contingent of Gappisti, a communist group, on suspicion that they were collaborating with Fascists and hindering the Yugoslav communist partisans.[citation needed]
See also
- 204896 Giorgiobocca, asteroid
References
- ^ "E' morto a Milano Giorgio Bocca Napolitano: "Sempre stato coerente"". Repubblica.it. Retrieved 2011-12-26.
- ^ Giorgio Bocca, Il Provinciale, Arnoldo Mondadori 1991 p. 189.
External links
- Biography at the Italian Partisans Association (in Italian)