Luigi Barzini, Jr.
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The Honourable Luigi Barzini, Jr. |
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Luigi Barzini, Jr. in 1962.
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| Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies | |
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In office 12 June 1958 – 24 May 1972 |
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| Constituency | Milan |
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21 December 1908 Milan, Italy |
| Died | 30 March 1984 (aged 75) Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Political party | Italian Liberal Party |
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Giannalisa Feltrinelli (m. 1940–47); divorced Paola Gadola (m. 1950–84); his death |
| Children | Ludina (1942–) Benedetta (1943–) Luigi III (1951–) Andrea (1952–) Francesca (1953–) |
| Parents | Luigi Barzini, Sr. and Emma Pesavento |
| Profession | Journalist, publisher, writer |
| Religion | Catholic Church |
Luigi Barzini, Jr. (Milan, 21 December 1908 – Rome, 30 March 1984) was an Italian journalist, writer and politician most famous for his 1964 book The Italians, delving deeply into the Italian national character and introducing many Anglo-Saxon readers to Italian life and culture.
Barzini junior was born in Milan, Lombardy, the son of Luigi Barzini, Sr., a famous journalist. In the 1920s, his father left the Corriere della Sera and moved to the United States, where he directed the Italian-American newspaper Corriere d'America from 1923 to 1931.
After completing his studies in Italy and at Columbia University, Barzini Jr. worked for two New York newspapers, including the New York World. In 1928, together with Richard Washburn Child, former Ambassador to Italy and a supporter of Benito Mussolini, he ghostwrote The Autobiography of Benito Mussolini. He returned to Italy in 1930 to become a correspondent for Corriere della Sera.
His father had pro-Fascist sentiments and had access to highest political circles of Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime. Luigi Jr., however, frequently associated with young dissidents around Galeazzo Ciano, the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mussolini's son-in-law.
As the Corriere della Sera Asian correspondent, he went to China. On 11 December 1937, he was aboard the USS Panay on the Yangtze Patrol in Nanking at the prompting of George Atcheson, a U.S. Embassy official. Also aboard were Universal News cameraman Norman Alley, Movietone News' Eric Mayell, the New York Times's Norman Soong, Collier's Weekly correspondent Jim Marshall, and La Stampa correspondent Sandro Sandri. Atcheson had invited them aboard the Panay so that they could document the fall of the city from relative safety. The four journalists had been covering the ongoing Japanese invasion of China in the mid-1930s, and found themselves in the thick of things in early December 1937 as Japanese forces moved on Nanking.
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