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

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, where he studied at the Gargallo classical high school, and then in

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where he attended University. In 1977 he went to Rome to work on the editorial board of the newspaper '' Lotta Continua'', and it was he who wrote and signed the correspondence of May 10 from Cinisi about the death of Peppino Impastato. 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,

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, graphic designer Francesco Cascioli and writers

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, Riccardo Mannelli,

Vauro Senesi Vauro Senesi (born 24 March 1955) is an Italian journalist and satirical cartoonist. Vauro was born in Pistoia. He was Pino Zac's apprentice, and, together with Giancarlo Fusco, Cinzia Leone and others, in September 1978 they founded ''Il ...

. Lillo Venezia was the second Italian journalist to be imprisoned after World War II (a few days in Regina Coeli) after Giovannino Guareschi, following a complaint for insulting religion and a foreign head of state (the Pope). Some copies of the newspaper were burned in the square by the parish priest of Spilimbergo, who judged it "''worthy of falling in the magma of our Italic volcanoes, a congenial seat for similar obsessive publications''". He was among the most important authors of the anti- mafia newspaper '' I Siciliani''; after the murder of founder

Giuseppe Fava Giuseppe "Pippo" Fava (; 15 September 1925 in Palazzolo Acreide – 5 January 1984 in Catania) was an Italian writer, investigative journalist, playwright, and Antimafia activist who was killed by the Mafia. He was the founder of the ''I Sicilia ...

, 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

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, before the latter was assassinated by the Mafia. In 2011 he became director of '' Il Male di Vauro e Vincino'', a new satire magazine inspired by Il Male and founded by

Vauro Vauro Senesi (born 24 March 1955) is an Italian journalist and satirical cartoonist. Vauro was born in Pistoia. He was Pino Zac's apprentice, and, together with Giancarlo Fusco, Cinzia Leone and others, in September 1978 they founded ''Il ...

and Vincino. Venezia died in the Garibaldi Hospital in Catania on 24 March 2020, aged 70, of COVID-19, during the pandemic in Italy.Giornalismo, è morto a Catania Lillo Venezia: fu tra i fondatori del Male
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