Chiara Valentini

Born in Parma on 16 July 1941, Valentini graduated from the University of Parma with a thesis on honor killings. She began working as a journalist for Corriere della Sera. In 1968, she was selected for a commentary competition by RAI; although she did not place in the competition, it jumpstarted her journalism career.^[2] She became a culture editor at Panorama and worked as a biographer and investigative journalist in the 1970s.^[3] Following disagreements with the editor-in-chief of Panorama, she joined L'Espresso and became a correspondent in the Soviet Union.^[4] In the 1990s, she covered the Bosnian War and wrote a hard-hitting piece on ethnic rape in the conflict.^[3] She also wrote biographies for notable Italian figures such as Dario Fo and Enrico Berlinguer.^[5] She worked on book projects for Controparola [de] until 2018.^[6]

Valentini died in Rome on 7 January 2026, at the age of 84.^[7]

• La storia di Dario Fo (1977)
• Il compagno Berlinguer (1985)
• Berlinguer il segretario (1987)
• Il nom est la cosa. Viaggio nel Pci (1990)
• Le donne fanno paura (2000)
• La fecondazione interditta (2004)
• O i figli o il lavoro (2012)
• Berlinguer (2014)
• Il coraggio delle donne (2020)
• Der eigenartige Genosse Enrico Berlinguer. Kommunist und Demokrat im Nachkriegseuropa (2022)