Camilla Cederna

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]

Selected works

Sources:^[2][3]

• Noi siamo le signore (We Are the Ladies) (1958)
• La voce dei padroni (The Voices of the Bosses) (1962)
• 8 1/2 di Federico Fellini (1963)
• Pinelli. Una finestra sulla strage (Pinelli: A Window on the Carnage) (1971), on the death of railroad worker and anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli
• Sparare a vista. Come la polizia del regime DC mantiene l'ordine pubblico (Shooting on Sight: How the Police of the Christian Democratic Government Maintain Order) (1975)
• Il mondo di Camilla, autobiography (1980)
• Casa nostra (1983)
• De gustibus (1986)