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Panfilo Gentile
Panfilo Gentile (28 May 1889 – 6 July 1971) was an Italian journalist, writer and politician. Another notable journalist, Sergio Romano, wrote of Gentile that he had an irrepressible tendency to deconstruct fashionable ideas, to puncture the balloons of political rhetoric and systematically to destroy received wisdoms. Life Panfilo Gentile was born in L'Aquila, an ancient city in the mountains between Rome and the Adriatic Sea. He was the eldest son of Vincenzo Gentile, prominent in the area as a lawyer and politician, by his marriage to Giuseppina Giorgi. Panfilo trained as a lawyer. However, rather than following in his father's footsteps, he studied Philosophy with Giorgio Del Vecchio and, while still young, became an unattached philosophy lecturer, later teaching his chosen subject at Bologna and, later, at Naples. Between 1911 and 1913 he worked on L'Unità, a relatively short-lived weekly publication focused on the arts and politics, founded and run by Gaetano S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epoca (magazine)
''Epoca'' (Italian: ''Age'') was an Italian illustrated weekly current events magazine published between 1950 and 1997 in Milan, Italy. History and profile ''Epoca'' was first published on 14 October 1950. The magazine was modeled on ''Life'' and ''Paris Match''. The magazine was part of Mondadori and was based in Milan. Its first editor was Alberto Mondadori who was succeeded in the post by Enzo Biagi in 1953. During the period until 1960 when Enzo Biagi edited ''Epoca'' the magazine covered current affairs news, social attitudes as well as TV news. The magazine also included frequent and detailed articles about Hollywood stars of the period and Italian movie stars such as Gina Lollobrigida. The weekly had offices in New York City, Paris and Tokyo. From June 1952 to the late 1958 the Cuban-Italian writer Alba de Céspedes wrote an agony column, called Dalla parte di lei, in the magazine. Then ''Epoca'' became part of Rizzoli Editori and began to cover travel and nature news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
