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01 December 2020Arthur Diaconale died in his Roman home.
The journalist, who was the official spokesperson for Lazio, had been fighting for some time against an incurable disease and his conditions had worsened.
Deacon was 75 years old.
SS Lazio, its President, the coach, the players and all the staff express deep condolences for the disappearance of the club spokesman, Arturo Diaconale, and join in the pain of the family pic.twitter.com/JirpwXx2QK
- SSLazio (@OfficialSSLazio) December 1, 2020
Abruzzese by birth and Roman by adoption, after graduating in Law he began his journalistic activity in the Roman editorial office of Il Giornale di Sicilia (1973). In 1976 he became a parliamentary journalist. In 1980 he became head of the Roman editorial office but in 1985 he moved to Il Giornale as parliamentary editor, then directed by Indro Montanelli. In 1992 he became editor-in-chief of Studio Aperto, the newspaper of the television broadcaster Italia 1. The following year he was appointed director of the weekly L'Opviso, which Diaconale transformed into a daily newspaper which later became L'Opviso delle liberta ', which he 'year. In 1995 he conceived and conducted a journalistic broadcast on Rai 3, entitled "On arms equal" and in the following years he participated as a columnist in all the main Italian talk shows. In 1996 he was a candidate for the Senate for the Polo per le Liberta 'of Lazio, in the college of Rieti, but was defeated by the representative of the Olive Tree and deputy secretary of the then PDS Gavino Angius.