A talk with journalist and author Enrico Deaglio, conducted by Prof. Mark Axelrod (Chapman University).
Deaglio will also be giving a talk at Chapman University on February 11 as part of its Literary Arts Reading Series.
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Enrico Deaglio was born in the industrial city of Torino in 1947. He studied Medicine and became a general pratictioner doctor. He then moved to Rome in the mid Seventies and became a full time journalist for both print and television.
His first book, The Banality of Goodness (1991) became an international success and the screen play for one of the most acclaimed Italian TV movies, Perlasca, The Courage of a Just Man (available on Amazon Prime). Giorgio Perlasca was an Italian businessman who, posing as a Spanish diplomat, saved thousands of Jews in 1944 Budapest.
Deaglio is the author of 20 books, among which the three volumes of Patria, a monumental social history of contemporary Italy from 1967 to 2019 (the final volume would be released next year).
A long time visitor to the United States, covering for Italian television the Aids epidemic and the Gulf Wars, he is now residing in San Francisco with his wife Cecile. Cecile’s family, originally from northern Louisiana, is the primary source of the story told in Storia vera e terribile tra Sicilia e America (2015). His last successful novel, La zia Irene e l’anarchico Tresca, was released last September.