Lillo Venezia

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Calogero Venezia, known as Lillo Venezia (24 February 1950 – 24 March 2020) was an Italian journalist.

Biography

Born in Mazara del Vallo in 1950, his real name was Calogero, but he was known to everyone as Lillo Venezia. He lived in Syracuse, where he studied at the Gargallo classical high school, and then in Catania where he attended University.

In 1977 he went to

Peppino Impastato.[1]

For a long time he was director of Il Male, one of the most innovative satire magazines in Italy, founded in Rome in 1977, along with young politicized journalists such as Pino Zac, Vincino, Sergio Angeletti, Enzo Sferra, Jacopo Fo, Cinzia Leone, graphic designer Francesco Cascioli and writers Angelo Pasquini, Sergio Saviane, Alain Denis, Roberto Perini, Riccardo Mannelli, Vauro Senesi.[2][3]

Lillo Venezia was the second Italian journalist to be imprisoned after

parish priest of Spilimbergo, who judged it "worthy of falling in the magma of our Italic volcanoes, a congenial seat for similar obsessive publications".[4]

He was among the most important authors of the anti-

I Siciliani; after the murder of founder Giuseppe Fava, he was part of the group of editors who kept the newspaper alive, along with Riccardo Orioles, Claudio Fava and others. Venezia was the author of the last interview with judge Rocco Chinnici, before the latter was assassinated by the Mafia.[5][6]

In 2011 he became director of

Vauro and Vincino.[7]

Venezia died in the Garibaldi Hospital in Catania on 24 March 2020, aged 70, of COVID-19, during the pandemic in Italy.[8][9][10][11]

References

  1. ^ "Lillo Venezia: notizie biografiche". Girodivite. 24 March 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Lillo Venezia: notizie biografiche". Girodivite. 24 March 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  3. ^ Addio a Lillo Venezia, il giornalista contestatore da "I Siciliani" a "Il Male"
  4. ^ "Lillo Venezia: notizie biografiche". Girodivite. 24 March 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  5. ^ "Lillo Venezia: notizie biografiche". Girodivite. 24 March 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  6. ^ Addio a Lillo Venezia, il giornalista contestatore da "I Siciliani" a "Il Male"
  7. ^ “Il vero Male siamo noi”. Il ritorno di Lillo Venezia, il direttore che finì al rogo
  8. ^ Michele Mordente (25 March 2020). "È morto Lillo Venezia, ex direttore responsabile di "Il Male"". Fumettologica. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  9. ^ Addio a Lillo Venezia, il giornalista contestatore da "I Siciliani" a "Il Male"
  10. ^ Lillo Venezia stroncato dal coronavirus, fu a fianco di Giuseppe Fava
  11. ^ Giornalismo, è morto a Catania Lillo Venezia: fu tra i fondatori del Male

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