Mario Cervi (25 March 1921 – 17 November 2015) was an Italian essayist and journalist. Born in

Crema, Lombardy Crema (; ) is a city and (municipality) in the province of Cremona, in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy. It is built along the river Serio River, Serio at from Cremona. It is also the seat of the Catholic Bishop of Crema, who gave the tit ...

, Cervi started his career as a journalist in 1945 collaborating with the newspaper as a foreign reporter. In 1965 he debuted as an essayist with ''Storia della guerra di Grecia'' ("History of the War of Greece"), with references to his experience as an infantry officer in Greece during the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. After about thirty years of collaboration, in 1974 he left the ''Corriere della Sera'' to co-found, with Indro Montanelli, the newspaper ''

il Giornale (), known from its founding in 1974 until 1983 as (), is an Italian-language daily newspaper published in Milan with an average circulation of 28,933 in May 2023. In 2006, it was considered one of Italy's main national newspapers. History an ...

'', in which he was columnist and then also deputy editor. With Montanelli, Cervi co-wrote 13 volumes of '' Storia d'Italia'' and the historical essay ''Milano ventesimo secolo''. After following Montanelli in the short-lived newspaper '' La Voce'' in 1994, Cervi collaborated with the newspaper '' La Nazione'' and in 1997 he became editor in chief of ''il Giornale'', succeeding to Vittorio Feltri. He left the direction of the newspaper in 2001, still continuing to collaborate as a columnist. He also continued his activity as an essayist, and his last work was the book ''Sprecopoli'', he co-wrote with Nicola Porro in 2007.

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Articles written on ''il Giornale''
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