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April 25, 2020

Journalist Nicola Caracciolo, correspondent from the USA for La Stampa, has disappeared at 88. His passion has always been history, from a young age. He has been a careful author of the disclosure, forerunner of dossier of contemporary history (memorable the interview with the last former queen of Italy Maria Josè, who had never previously broken his silence), and of important television investigations for Rai on the Second World War and the post-war period, and on the extermination of Italian Jews.

Born in Florence on May 19, 1931, he was the brother of Marella Caracciolo Agnelli and Carlo Caracciolo, publisher of the Republic at the time of its foundation (1976).

Convinced environmentalist, he had spent in particular on the conservation of the natural environment and against the construction of the highway in Maremma, where he was at home, so much so as to be called by people "the Prince of Capalbio". In the town he had led the literary prize in Piazza Magenta and the Maremma Tuscia section of Italia Nostra, an association of which he was honorary president. His wife Rossella Sleiter worked for many years as a journalist in the Republic and still manages the "Natura" section on Friday

Among his television investigations, the series 'The courage and piety' on the history of Italian Jews after the promulgation of the racial laws of 1938 is particularly significant, analyzing both the role of those who denounced their Jewish fellow citizens and of those who worked for protect them. He also dedicated the essay 'The Jews and Italy during the 1940-45 war' to the same theme (Bonacci, 1986). For Rai he also signed the investigations "Hitler and Mussolini: The years of the meetings" (1998), "Galeazzo Ciano a fascist tragedy" (1997), "A forty-eight happens" (1993), "The 600 days of Salò" (1991 ). Among his books "All the men of the Duce" (Mondadori, 1982).

In the nineties he had signed the documentary Succede a Forty-eight on the Italian post-war period with Valerio Emanuele Marino.