Giulio Savelli (27 September 1941 – 12 May 2020) was an Italian politician and publisher.

Biography

Born in

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, on 27 September 1941, Savelli co-founded the publishing house alongside Giuseppe Paolo Samonà in 1963. Samonà left the business in 1968, and Savelli ran Samonà e Savelli on his own. The publishing house released 1,200 titles, among them ''La strage di Stato'' (1970), about the

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, and ' (1976), co-authored by and

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. Savelli retired from publishing in 1976, leaving Samonà e Savelli to an editorial collective. The publishing company closed in 1982. Savelli was elected to the

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as a member of

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. He sat on the Legislature XIII, which met between 1996 and 2001. Savelli was married to the journalist . He died in Rome on 12 May 2020.

References

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