Petacco Arrigo

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Arrigo Petacco

Journalist, historian and screenwriter

He began his journalistic career at “Il Lavoro di Genova” directed by Sandro Pertini. Prolific writer with great dissemination skills, he focused on well-known personalities of the first half of the twentieth century and of fascism, he wrote various films and made numerous television programs, in particular with Rai. In his journalistic activity he interviewed some of the protagonists of the Second World War. In 1983 he won the Saint-Vincent Prize for journalism thanks to his television surveys and in 2006 the Capo d’Orlando Prize for journalism. Among his most controversial theses, the one expressed in November 2014 in an interview on Beppe Grillo’s blog about the Matteotti murder: on the occasion Petacco claims that Mussolini was not the instigator of that crime, sparking debates and controversies. He was a guest of the Liberevento Cultural Festival in 2012 with the book “Quelli che dissero di no” (Mondadori Ed.).