Andrea di Robilant (journalist)
Andrea di Robilant (born February 13, 1957 in Rome , Italy ) is an Italian journalist , historian and author .
Life
Di Robilant was born to an American mother from Lynchburg , Virginia and an Italian father of Piedmontese and Venetian ancestors. After he got problems with school at the French grammar school, the Lycée français Chateaubriand in Rome, he was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland , where he passed the French Baccalauréat , which roughly corresponds to the German Abitur .
In 1975 di Robilant went to the University of Tehran as a lecturer and from there back to Europe via Afghanistan, Pakistan , India , Nepal and Southeast Asia .
Di Robilant studied history and political science at Columbia University in New York City from 1977 . Then worked in the USA as a correspondent for the Italian newspapers La Repubblica and La Stampa . Today (2012) he lives in Rome and Venice, writes books and is still a correspondent for La Stampa .
His book Venetian Navigators. The Voyage of the Zen Brothers to the Far North deals with an unsecured journey by two merchants from Venice, who are said to have made a voyage of discovery across the North Atlantic to a continent not known in Europe before Columbus discovered America in 1390 . Robilant's considerations are based on a map published in 1558 by a descendant of the Zeno brothers , Nicolò Zeno (the Elder) and Antonio Zeno, along with a series of letters. This map, found by Nicolò Zeno (the younger) , is considered by the majority of historians today to be a forgery, with which the Republic of Venice wanted to highlight the discovery of America as an act of Venetians.
Publications
- 2011: Venetian Navigators. The Voyage of the Zen Brothers to the Far North. Faber & Co., London, ISBN 978-0-571-24377-8 .
- 2011: Title with Alfred A. Knopf; New York City: Irresistable North. From Venice to Greenland on the trail of the Zen Brothers , ISBN 978-0-307269850 .
- 2008: Lucia nel tempo di Napoleone . Casa Editrice Corbaccio, Milan, ISBN 978-88-7972-954-3 .
- 2003: A Venetian Affair. Knopf, New York City, ISBN 0-375-41181-X .
- 2003: Mask games. A Venetian affair. Blessing, Munich, ISBN 3-89667-174-X
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The neverending story in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from September 25, 2011, p. 61.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Di Robilant, Andrea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian journalist, historian and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome , Italy |