Gianni Brera

Giovanni Luigi Brera (San Zenone Al Po, statement September 8th, 1919 - Codogno, LO December 19th, 1992), known as Gianni Brera, was a writer and Italian journalist.

Thanks to its originality and with its control of the Italian language, Brera is judged to have influenced the Italian sporting journalism of the XXe century more than any other journalist.

Thus it itself in a text presented: My true name is Giovanni Luigi Brera. I was born on September 8th, 1919 in San Zenone Po, in the district of wild Pavia, and I grown or almost among wood, banks and the freeboards (...). I am padain of bank and plain, wood and sands. I was discovered wire legitimate of the Po. "

Life

Brera passed its science control Politiques in 1943, while it was useful in the army as lieutenant parachutist of Folgore Division. In 1944, continued by the Gestapo because of its antifascism, it took refuge in Switzerland from where it returned to Italy to fight in the maquis, in particular in the Valley of Ossola. As assistance-of-fields of Comoli Division it defines the plan to prevent the Germans from making jump the tunnel of the Simplon in April 1945. Brera was always praised to have crossed all the world war without never drawing on another human being.

Demobilized in June 1945, Brera had by Bruno Roghi to work in the drafting of Gazzetta dello Sport, the sporting daily newspaper more diffused in Italy. In 1949 he will become about it the writer-in-chief, youngest in the Italian history, after his reports of the Tour de France (cycling).

In the following years, Brera wrote in several publications, of which the Team, It Giorno, It Giornale, it Guerin Sportivo, Repubblica and Hungarian Nepsabdsag. It dealt especially of football and cycling. It published many books: handbooks, tests, novels, accounts and plays. Its novel the best known one is It corpo beyond ragassa ( the body of the girl ), from which Pasquale Festa Campanile drew a film-comedy.

Brera died on December 19th, 1992 in a road accident close to Milan. The Civica Arena of Milan, set up by Napoleon 1st at the beginning of the XIX century, was entitled to him in 2003.

Its style

In journalism, Brera created a innovatif style, founded on its literary vein. It incorporated in its writings of the many words borrowed abroad (it spoke French, German and Spanish) or in the Italian regional languages, in particular with the lombard (a celto-French language rather near to the Occitan). It created itself much neologisms, of which a past in good of other languages (" libero" for a particular role of football player). Brera was called " It Gran Lombardo" (large Lombard) like formerly Carlo Alberto Pisani Dossi E Carlo Emilio Gadda.

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