Enrico Zuppi (

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, 10 July 1909 – Rome, 18 December 1992) was an Italian photographer and journalist, and father of Cardinal

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Life and career

Enrico Zuppi was born on 10 July 1909 in Rome, son of Raffaele Zuppi, and Maddalena Stirpe.https://www.uneba.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Scheda-2-gli-autori-degli-scatti-_2_.pdf He had one younger brother, Vittorio (died young), and an elder sister, Rosa 'Rosina'. At a young age, he attended the Basilica of Sant’Eustachio. He belonged to the

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, where he met Giovanni Battista Montini, the future

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. In the first years of his career, Zuppi worked at the Compagnia di San Paolo, in

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, as a photographer, creating advertisements and promotional photos for the Compagnia. Over 20,000 of his images were donated by his family to the

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institute, and are conserved in the ‘Fondo Enrico Zuppi’. After the second World War, Zuppi moved to

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and

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, working with newspapers such as L’Italia, and L'Avvenire d'Italia, and with the latter worked along with Raimondo Manzini. In January 1947, Zuppi was given the position of director of the

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weekly newspaper, L’Osservatore della Domenica, by the then Secretary of State, Giovanni Montini (future Pope Paul VI). Zuppi modernised the newspaper, and when he went into retirement in 1979, the newspaper was reduced to 8 pages, before ceasing publications in 2007.

Personal life

In 1946, Zuppi wed Carla Fumagalli (died 2005), the niece of Cardinal

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. The couple had six children, Giovanni Maria, Cecilia, Pier Luca, Marco, Matteo Maria, and Paolo. Zuppi died in Rome on 18 December 1992, aged 83.

References

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