Paolo Filo della Torre

Paolo Filo della Torre (born November 5, 1933 in Rome ; died March 9, 2014 in Arundel , West Sussex ) was an Italian journalist.

Life

Paolo Filo della Torre attended the Istituto San Gabriele and studied politics at the University of La Sapienza . He began his professional career as an economist at the Italian Embassy in Great Britain . He then became a foreign correspondent for the business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore in London . In 1976 he co-founded the daily La Repubblica and continued to write from London. His articles have also been published in The Economist , The Guardian, and the Financial Times . Conte Filo della Torre had access to the English upper class and wrote about it. Filo wrote, among other things, a biography about Margaret Thatcher under the title La Bambola di Ferro .

In 2011 he received the Freedom of the City of London award .

Fonts (selection)

with Jonathan Story, Edward Mortimer : Eurocomunismo Mito o Realtà . Milan: Mondadori, 1978
Thatcher, la bambola di ferro . Milan: Rizzoli, 1983
- Viva Britannia: Mrs Thatcher's Britain . London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985
Elisabetta II: la donna e la regina . Milan: Mondadori, 1994
with Renata Beltrami, Silvia Mazzola: La lingua nel piatto: le ricette per imparare a capire l'inglese (e gli inglesi) . Milan: Golosia, 2006
Clandestini in Gran Bretagna , in: Polizia moderna, Vol. 59, no. 2 (Feb. 2007), Col. 22-25
with Claudio Brachino : Chi ha ucciso Lady D? Milan: Mondadori, 2007

Web links

Literature by and about Filo della Torre, Paolo in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Enrico Franceschini: Addio a Paolo Filo Della Torre, da Londra con nobiltà , La Repubblica , March 10, 2014
Paolo Filo Della Torre was an Italian foreign correspondent with a flair for flirtation and fact-finding , obituary in the Telegraph , April 16, 2014

Individual evidence

^ È morto Paolo Filo della Torre, raccontò riti e vezzi della «swinging London». In: ilsecoloxix.it. March 14, 2014, accessed August 17, 2020 (Italian).

personal data
SURNAME	Filo della Torre, Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 5, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rome
DATE OF DEATH	March 9, 2014
Place of death	Arundel , West Sussex

[1] È morto Paolo Filo della Torre, raccontò riti e vezzi della «swinging London». In: ilsecoloxix.it. March 14, 2014, accessed August 17, 2020 (Italian).