Background
Gianni Granzotto was born on January 12, 1914 in Padova, Veneto, Italy as Giovanni Battista Granzotto to the family of Federico Granzotto and Anna Springolo. He spent his youth in Bologna.
Gianni Granzotto
Gianni Granzotto graduated from the University of Bologna as Bachelor of Arts in 1936 with a thesis on an Italian writer Italo Svevo.
Gianni Granzotto (right) with Palmiro Togliatti, after recording "Tribuna Politico."
Gianni Granzotto shaking Sandro Pertini's hand.
Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Gianni Granzotto graduated from the University of Bologna as Bachelor of Arts in 1936 with a thesis on an Italian writer Italo Svevo.
Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Gianni Granzotto (right) with Palmiro Togliatti, after recording "Tribuna Politico."
Gianni Granzotto shaking Sandro Pertini's hand.
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journalist war correspondent writer
Gianni Granzotto was born on January 12, 1914 in Padova, Veneto, Italy as Giovanni Battista Granzotto to the family of Federico Granzotto and Anna Springolo. He spent his youth in Bologna.
Gianni Granzotto graduated from the University of Bologna as Bachelor of Arts in 1936 with a thesis on an Italian writer Italo Svevo.
In 1936 Granzotto volunteered in East Africa at the artillery regiment "Curtatone and Montanara". He then took his first steps in journalism as a correspondent for the newspaper 'Gazzetta del Popolo' in Turin, Italy. He was later appointed a director of "L'Assalto di Bologna" (The Assault of Bologna) followed by twenty-five years at the Genoa newspaper "Lavoro".
At the outbreak of the Second World War, to fulfill his military obligations, he worked as director of translations on the military newspaper, sent to the Albanian front (Italian colony then), "Tradotta d'Oltralpe", the experience that later inspired the novel "Vojussa, mia cara" published in 1985.
After the war, Granzotto acted as an envoy for Time magazine following the Paris Peace Conference, where he remained as correspondent of the daily Roman newspaper as well as weekly L'Europeo until 1952.
Briefly in 1953 Granzotto visits New York as a correspondent of Radio Televisione Italiana, when after two years he is recalled to Italy to participate in the development of an early television news reports, ensuring the first review of foreign policy in the evening TV news. By 1960 he launched the successful program Tribuna Elettorale.
In 1962 the Publishing House Rizzoli assigned Granzotto for the task of preparing and then running a newspaper that would be called "Oggi" (Today) - it never saw the light because after more than three years of work Rizzoli rejected the project.
So Granzotto returned to the Radio Televisione Italiana in 1965 where they appointed him as CEO, however after the renewal of the first term, he was discharged in 1969 and returned to Italy as President of the daily paper "Il Messaggero" (The Messenger).
In 1972 he becomes Vice-President of the Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata and two years later, with Indro Montanelli (1909–2001) and Guido Piovene (1907–1974) starts the newspaper "Il Giornale" as Managing Director and then Chairman.
After Piovene's death Granzotto begins to write prolifically for the editorial Mondadori publishing "La battaglia di Lepanto" (The Battle of Lepanto) in 1975 followed by "Carl Magno" (Charles the Great) three years later, then "Hannibal" (1980), "Maria Teresa, Maria Teresa" (1982), "Cristoforo Columbus" (1984) later published as "Christopher Columbus. The Dream and the Obsession: A Biography" (1985), and the aforementioned "Vojussa, mia cara" (1985). In 1976 Granzotto was appointed President of the Agency ANSA, a position he would retain until 1985.
By the end of his life, Granzotto became incapacitated by an old disease that would lead to his eventual death in Lazio, Rome at the age of 71.
Gianni Granzotto played an important role in Italian Mass Media developing and creating television programs and publishing houses of state and international importance. For his achievements and contribution in Italian television and press, and also for his books, he was awarded first Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1963 and then Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1965.
Physical Characteristics: Gianni Granzotto contracted hepatitis in Yugoslavia, where he had been sent to follow the rift between Josip Broz Tito and Joseph Stalin from which he eventually died in 1985.
Gianni Granzotto married Carolina Piola on September 15, 1937. They had two children: Gabriele and Paolo.
