Bruno Bartoloni

Born in Rome on 26 March 1940, Bartoloni was the son of journalist Giulio Bartoloni and Marianne Dorn-Warschauer, a German Jew who was the granddaughter of Felix Mendelssohn.^[2] He converted to Catholicism to escape deportation by the Nazis,^[3] which later led him to become a vaticanist [fr].^[4] Growing up, he accompanied his father to the Vatican.^[5] Once he finished his secondary school studies, he began working as a journalist and was involved in the premature announcement of the death of Pope Pius XII. He worked as a freelancer before joining Agence France Presse in 1961 where he remained until 1 June 2005, the day before the death of Pope John Paul II.^[6] He remained active until his death, writing for Corriere della Sera, Paris Match, France Télévisions, BFM TV, and Radio France Internationale.^[7][8]

Bartoloni died in Rome on 18 October 2024, at the age of 84.^[9]

• Le Vatican et ses papes (2008)
• Le roman du Vatican secret (2009)^[10]
• Lo Orecchie del Vaticano (2012)^[11]
• Le ali di Leonardo sul vento del Bosforo (2013)^[12]
• Un juif au Vatican (2018)^[13]