Riccardo Forte (journalist)


Riccardo Forte (San Giorgio a Cremano, May 5, 1904 - Rome, December 22, 1993) was an Italian journalist. Biography modifies wikitesto

Leave engineering studies at Politecnico di Milano to follow the vocation of journalist. It is corresponding to the rest of the Carlino from Paris and then correspondent of La Stampa from Paris and later from Madrid (1932). The civil war will mark his career. Brings the family safe in France to Saint-Jean-de-Luz and rages on the various fronts. Practicing and anti-fascist Catholic describes in his books the civil war atrocities committed by both parties. He settled in Barcelona and then in Lisbon, he returned to Italy in 1944 on a US military ship repatriating Italian prisoners of war.

In the post-war period, he runs numerous headlines such as the Gazzettino di Venezia, the Corriere di Sicilia in Catania, the Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno in Bari, the Gazzetta del Popolo in Turin. At the end of the 1950s, NEA, an independent press agency specialized in in-depth articles, founded.

In old age he dedicates himself to the preparation of ephemeris. Assiduously research daily news for the event with events of 10 and 100 years before and the deepening of the "Holy Day" that brings him to collecting thousands of stories of saints.

She died after a brief pneumonia in 1993 in Rome, in the villa of Prato Lauro, also home to NEA.

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