Camilla Cederna
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Camilla Cederna (21 January 1911 – 5 November 1997)[1] was an Italian writer and editor. She is said to have introduced investigative journalism to the Italian news media. Some sources give her year of birth as 1921.[2][3][4] Cederna was born and grew up in Milan. She was daughter of Giulio Cederna, a business manager and footballer, and brother to Antonio Cederna, a co-founder of Italia Nostra.[5]
Cederna studied Classic Literature at the University of Milan. In 1941, she helped founding the magazine L'Europeo. From 1958 to 1980, she was an editor and reporter for L'Espresso; in 1980, she joined Panorama magazine as an editor and columnist.[6] Her 1943 article La moda nera ("Black Fashion") about the clothes worn by women in the Italian fascist movement, originally published in Corriere della Sera on 7 September, led to her being put in prison.[7]
Cerderna is perhaps best known for her 1978 book Giovanni Leone: la carriera di un presidente (Giovanni Leone: The Career of a President), where she accused Italian president Giovanni Leone of being involved in a Lockheed bribery scandal; Leone was forced to resign but he later successfully sued Cederna for libel.[4] She died of cancer in Rome in 1997.[3]
