Camilla Cederna (21 January 1911 – 5 November 1997) was an Italian writer and editor. She is said to have introduced

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to the Italian news media. Some sources give her year of birth as 1921. Cederna was born in

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where she studied Classic Literature at the

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. In 1941 she helped founding the magazine ''

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''. From 1958 to 1980, she was an editor and reporter for ''

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''; in 1980, she joined ''

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'' magazine as an editor and columnist. Her 1943 article ''La moda nera'' ("Black fashion") about the clothes worn by women in the Italian Fascist movement, originally published in

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on September 7, led to her being put in prison. 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

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of being involved in a

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; Leone was forced to resign but he later successfully sued Cederna for

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. She died of cancer in

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in 1997.

Selected works

* ''Noi siamo le signore'' (We are the ladies) (1958) * ''La voce dei padroni'' (The voices of the bosses) (1962) * ''

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'' (1963) * ''Pinelli. Una finestra sulla strage'' (Pinelli: A window on the carnage) (1971), on the death of railroad worker and anarchist

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* ''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

1911 births 1997 deaths 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 {{Italy-writer-stub