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 and grew up in

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. She was daughter of Giulio Cederna, a business manager and

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, and brother to Antonio Cederna, a co-founder of Italia Nostra. Cederna studied Classic Literature at the

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. In 1941, she helped founding the magazine '' L'Europeo''. 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

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movement, originally published in ''

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'' on 7 September, 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 Lockheed bribery scandal; 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

Sources: * ''Noi siamo le signore'' (We Are the Ladies) (1958) * ''La voce dei padroni'' (The Voices of the Bosses) (1962) * '' 8 1/2 di

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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 Giuseppe Pinelli * ''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

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