Piero Vivarelli (26 February 1927 – 7 September 2010) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and lyricist. Vivarelli was born in

Siena Siena ( , ; traditionally spelled Sienna in English; ) is a city in Tuscany, in central Italy, and the capital of the province of Siena. It is the twelfth most populated city in the region by number of inhabitants, with a population of 52,991 ...

. After his father's death in 1942 at the hands of

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, Vivarelli joined the

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as a young volunteer of the Decima Flottiglia MAS and for a short time was a member of the

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.Giuliana Rotondi. "Trapassati alla storia: Piero Vivarelli". ''Focus Storia'' n. 49. November 2010. p. 26. Later, from 1949 through the 1990s, he was a member of the

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, and was also the only Italian to receive the

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's membership card from

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. Mainly active in genre films, he is regarded as a key figure in the '' musicarello'' genre. He was also active as a lyricist of pop songs such as " 24.000 baci", and several hits popularized by

Adriano Celentano Adriano Celentano (; born 6 January 1938) is an Italian singer-songwriter, actor, showman, and filmmaker. He is dubbed ''Il Molleggiato'' ('the springy one') because of his energetic dancing. Celentano's many albums frequently enjoyed both com ...

Selected filmography

* '' Supreme Confession'' (1956) * '' The Wanderers'' (1956) * '' Cavalier in Devil's Castle'' (1959) * '' Rita the American Girl'' (1965) * '' Avenger X'' (1967) * '' Satanik'' (1968)

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* 1927 births 2010 deaths Writers from Siena Italian film directors Italian screenwriters Italian male screenwriters Italian male songwriters Italian songwriters Italian lyricists 20th-century Italian musicians 20th-century Italian male musicians {{Italy-film-director-stub