Marcello Sorgi (born 31 March 1955) is an Italian journalist and author. Born in

Palermo Palermo ( ; ; , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The ...

, the son of a

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, Sorgi started his career as a journalist for the newspaper ''

L'Ora ''L'Ora'' (English: "The Hour") was a Sicilian Newspaper#Daily, daily newspaper published in Palermo. The paper was founded in 1900 and stopped being published in 1992. In the 1950s–1980s the evening paper was known for its investigative report ...

'', and then he worked ''

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'' and ''

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''.Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. ''Catalogo dei viventi''. Marsilio, 2009. . In 1996 he became the director of

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, then in 1998, left the office, he was the director of ''

'' until 2005. In 2000 Sorgi released a book-length interview with Sicilian novelist

Andrea Camilleri Andrea Calogero Camilleri (; 6 September 1925 – 17 July 2019) was an Italian writer best known for his Salvo Montalbano crime novels. Biography Originally from Porto Empedocle, Girgenti, Sicily, Camilleri began university studies in the ...

, ''La testa ci fa dire''. In 2009 he wrote the book ''Edda Ciano and the Communist'' in which he tells the illicit love story between

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's daughter, and a regional communist leader, Leonida Bongiorno, which had as its background on the Isle of Lipari. The book was adapted into a film with the same name, directed by Graziano Diana and starred by

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and

Stefania Rocca Stefania Rocca (born 24 April 1971) is an Italian actress. She is best known for her roles in the films ''Nirvana'' (1997), ''The Talented Mr. Ripley'' (1999) and ''Dracula'' (2002). Rocca also was the lead in Dario Argento's '' The Card Player' ...

. In 2010, Sorgi wrote ''Le amanti del vulcano'' (''The Volcano Lovers''), a historical reconstruction of the love triangle between

Roberto Rossellini Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and producer. He was one of the most prominent directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing to the movement with films such a ...

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and

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