Giulio Savelli

For the Italian clergyman, see Giulio Savelli (cardinal).

Giulio Savelli (27 September 1941 – 12 May 2020) was an Italian politician and publisher.

Biography

Born in Rome, Italy, on 27 September 1941,^[1] Savelli co-founded the publishing house Samonà e Savelli [it] alongside Giuseppe Paolo Samonà in 1963.^[2][3] Samonà left the business in 1968, and Savelli ran Samonà e Savelli on his own.^[3] The publishing house released 1,200 titles, among them La strage di Stato (1970), about the Piazza Fontana bombing, and Porci con le ali [it] (1976), co-authored by Marco Lombardo Radice [it] and Lidia Ravera.^[4][5] Savelli retired from publishing in 1976, leaving Samonà e Savelli to an editorial collective.^[3] The publishing company closed in 1982.^[3]

Savelli was elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a member of Forza Italia.^[4][6] He sat on the Legislature XIII, which met between 1996 and 2001.^[1]

Savelli was married to the journalist Pialuisa Bianco [it].^[4] He died in Rome on 12 May 2020.^[4][7]