Leo Longanesi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Leo Longanesi

Italian journalist, painter, film director, screenwriter, author, illustrator and publisher

Date of Birth: 30-Aug-1905

Place of Birth: Bagnacavallo, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Date of Death: 27-Sep-1957

Profession: screenwriter, writer, author, illustrator, painter, journalist, publisher, film director

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Leopoldo Longanesi (30 August 1905 – 27 September 1957) was an Italian journalist, publicist, screenplayer, playwright, writer and publisher, famous in his country mostly for the satirical works on Italian society and people.
He also founded the eponymous publishing house in Milan in 1946 and was a mentor-like figure for the most famous Indro Montanelli, journalist and historian, founder of Il Giornale, one of the Italian biggest newspaper.Between 1927 and 1950, he published several magazines including L'Italiano (1927), Omnibus (1937), and Il Borghese (1950), a cultural and satirical weekly, conservative-oriented. A self-described cultural anarchist, after the Second World War Longanesi headed a right-wing popular sentiment that embraced conservatism, agrarian virtues, anti-democracy and nostalgic post-fascism,Longanesi was also an elegant and refined cartoonist and wrote several books of memoirs, characterised by a ruthless streak and Fascist nostalgic accents (In piedi e seduti, Una vita, Ci salveranno le vecchie zie?).