Pietro Calabrese (8 May 1944,

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– 12 September 2010, Rome) was an Italian journalist who worked for l'ANSA, the ''

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Biography

Calabrese was born to Palermitano parents, Giovanna Voltaggio and Salvatore Calabrese. He spent his infancy and adolescence between Palermo and Rome, where he studied at the

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near the Piazza di Spagna. After achieving a degree in law, he entered the

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as a fellow, to become a parliamentary official. Afterwards, he left the administration of the

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to dedicate himself to journalist. Recognized as a by 1974, he won three assignments from the

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, where he began to work. For 8 years, he was a correspondent for ANSA and then ''

'', for two years in Madrid, four in Paris, and two in Brussels. He died in Rome on 12 September 2010 at the Clinica Paideia, due to illness.

Honors

* The outer main-belt asteroid 10699 Calabrese, discovered by American astronomer Schelte Bus at the Australian

Siding Spring Observatory Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, part of the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics (RSAA) at the Australian National University (ANU), incorporates the Anglo-Australian Telescope along with a coll ...

in 1981, was named in his memory on 13 April 2017 ().

References

1944 births 2010 deaths Italian sports journalists Deaths from lung cancer in Lazio Italian magazine editors {{italy-journalist-stub