Marcello Sorgi

{{short description|Italian journalist and author (born 1955)}}

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Marcello Sorgi (born 31 March 1955) is an Italian journalist and author.

Born in Palermo, the son of a criminal defense lawyer, Sorgi started his career as a journalist for the newspaper L'Ora, and then he worked Il Messaggero and La Stampa.Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. Catalogo dei viventi. Marsilio, 2009. {{ISBN|9788831795999}}. In 1996 he became the director of RAI TV's TG1, then in 1998, left the office, he was the director of La Stampa until 2005.

In 2000 Sorgi released a book-length interview with Sicilian novelist Andrea Camilleri, La testa ci fa dire. In 2009 he wrote the book Edda Ciano and the Communist in which he tells the illicit love story between Edda Ciano, Benito Mussolini's daughter, and a regional communist leader, Leonida Bongiorno, which had as its background on the Isle of Lipari.{{cite news|title=Mussolini's daughter's affair with communist revealed in love letters|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5172897/Mussolinis-daughters-affair-with-communist-revealed-in-love-letters.html|accessdate=30 August 2014|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=17 April 2009}} The book was adapted into a film with the same name, directed by Graziano Diana and starred by Alessandro Preziosi and Stefania Rocca.{{cite news|last1=Fulvia Caprara|title=Edda Ciano e il comunista l'amore vince la politica|url=http://www.lastampa.it/2011/03/11/spettacoli/edda-ciano-e-il-comunista-l-amore-vince-la-politica-5CNflI1uUOKsyAaSAZfoxM/pagina.html|accessdate=30 August 2014|newspaper= La Stampa|date=11 March 2011}}

In 2010, Sorgi wrote Le amanti del vulcano (The Volcano Lovers), a historical reconstruction of the love triangle between Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman and Anna Magnani.{{cite news|last1=Redazione online|title=Le amanti del vulcano in un triangolo di fuoco|url=http://www.iltempo.it/cultura-spettacoli/2010/04/23/le-amanti-del-vulcano-in-un-triangolo-di-fuoco-1.156001|accessdate=30 August 2014|newspaper=Il Tempo|date=23 April 2010}}