Arrigo Levi

Arrigo Levi ( born July 17, 1926 in Modena ) is an Italian journalist, writer and TV presenter.

Biography

Asylum in Argentina

From a family of the Jewish community in Modena coming (his father Enzo was a prominent lawyer in Modena, his mother Ida Donati comes from Donato Donati, a handler, who had come from Finale Emilia to Modena in 1600 and introduced the buckwheat in the Duchy of Este has ), he emigrated in 1938 at the age of twelve years with his family to Argentina to escape the fascist persecution. In Buenos Aires he completed his studies and in 1943 began his journalistic career as a director of Italia libera ( free Italy).

Journalistic career

After the Second World War, he returned with his family from Argentina to Modena, just in time to take part on June 2, 1946, the referendum, which the Italians were asked to choose between monarchy and republic. At just 20, he continued his journalistic career began in Argentina and headed for almost two years, the Gazzetta di Modena, until he decided to live in Israel.

The main tasks

In 1960 he moved to Moscow, where he worked as a correspondent for the Corriere della Sera and thereafter until 1966 as a correspondent for Il Giorno until 1962. In 1966 he returns to the RAI, where he managed until 1968 the newscast Telegiornale (this was an innovation for Italian television, because by then the news of professional "speakers " were read and not journalists ). To the newspaper business in 1969 he returned back as rapporteur of the Turin daily La Stampa, he came to this task until 1973, when he was appointed director of the same newspaper and the afternoon newspaper Stampa sera. He remained until 1978 in Turin. From 1979 to 1983 he collaborated with The Times, responsible for international issues. In 1988 he was Hauptleitartikelschreiber the Corriere della sera and from 1998 to July 3, 2007 he was a consultant for Foreign Affairs of the Italian President - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and then Giorgio Napolitano.

TV

In addition to the news that he devoted himself to the mid-sixties, he worked with on many other TV shows, which were largely realized by the RAI. Among them: Tam Tam (1981) Punto Punto sette sette and, una vita. In addition to the Canale 5: Tivù Tivù with Angelo Campanella ( 1985-1987 ). Then again for RAI: I giorni dell'infanzia (1993 ) TV Emozioni (1995) and Gli Archivi del Cremlino (1997), but he was also the author of this mission. 1999 on RAI Uno C'era una volta la he headed Russia.

Quote

"You understand the value of freedom only in the moment in which you lose it. And she's the most beautiful thing to regain. "

Publications

A selection of the many published by Arrigo Levi books and articles:

• L' economia degli Stati Uniti oggi - L' america del boom ( Rai, 1966) ( with Alberto Ronchey )
• Il potere in Russia since Stalin a Brezhnev ( Il Mulino, 1967)
• La televisione all'italiana (1969, etas compass)
• Viaggio fra gli Economisti (1970, Il Mulino )
• PCI, la lunga marcia verso il potere (1971, etas compass)
• Un'idea dell'Italia (1979, Mondadori )
• Il comunismo Budapest as a Praga 1956 - 1958 ( with Enzo Bettiza, Adolfo Battaglia and Ennio Ceccarini ) (1969, Edizioni della voce )
• Ipotesi sull'Italia (1983, Il Mulino )
• La Democrazia nell'Italia che cambia (1984, Laterza )
• Intervista sulla Dc (1986 )
• Noi: gli italiani (1988, Laterza ) ISBN 88-420-3216-6
• Tra Est e Ovest (1990, Rizzoli ) SBN 88-178-4019- X
• Yitzhak Rabin. 1210 giorni per la Pace (1996, Mondadori ) ISBN 88-044-1603-3
• Le due fedi (1996, Il Mulino )
• La vecchiaia può Attendere: ovvero l' arte di giovani restare (1997, Mondadori ) ISBN 88-04-42129-0
• Rapporto sul Medio Oriente (1998, Il Mulino ) ISBN 88-150-6621-7
• Russia del '900: una storia europea (1999, Corbaccio ) ISBN 88-797-2310-3
• Dialoghi di fine Millenio (1999, Rizzoli ) ( with Andrea Riccardi and Eugenio Scalfari )
• Dialoghi sulla fede (2000, Il Mulino ) ( with Vincenzo Paglia and Andrea Riccardi )
• America latina: memorie e Ritorni (2004, Il Mulino )
• Cinque discorsi tra due secoli (2004, Il Mulino ) ISBN 88-15-09913-1
• Un paese non basta (2009, il Mulino ) ISBN 978-88-15-13098-3

Awards and recognitions

• Trento Prize for Journalism (1987 )
• Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1991 )
• Luigi Barzini price, as the best reporter of the year ( 1995)
• Premio Ischia Internazionale di Giornalismo (Ischia Prize ) (2001 )
• Grand Silver Medal with Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria (2002)
• Grand Officer of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique (2002)
• Guidarello Price ( 2006)
• Order of Marie Cross Country III. class