Saverio Lodato
Saverio Lodato (born 6 March 1951, Reggio Emilia) is an Italian journalist and essayist .
Biography
[edit]His parents, state employees, were subjected to continuous transfers for being sympathizers of the Italian Communist Party; thus Lodato, before moving to Palermo at the age of eight, lived in Reggio Emilia , Modena , Pisa and Livorno .
He graduated in Philosophy, and began writing in 1979 for the daily newspaper L'Ora . Since 1980 he has written for l'Unità as a correspondent from Palermo . He was arrested in 1988 together with her colleague Attilio Bolzoni of Repubblica for having published the revelations of Antonino Calderone , violating the secrecy of the investigation .[1] They were both acquitted in 1991, from the charge of embezzlement and amnestied for that of revealing the secrecy of the investigation.[2]
In his articles and essays, Lodato addresses and develops the themes and connections of Italian politics and justice, with particular attention to the Italian mafia. He is the author of a chronicle of the mafia phenomenon, a best seller that is constantly updated. The first edition, which appeared in 1990, was Ten Years of Mafia . The latest edition, entitled Fifty Years of Mafia , was released in May 2024
In other works he met the protagonists of the fight against the mafia, the public prosecutors Piero Grasso and Roberto Scarpinato, and the repentants Tommaso Buscetta and Giovanni Brusca .
In 2012, after more than thirty years of collaboration, Lodato left Unità and began collaborating with the site Antimafiaduemila.com .[3]
In December 2012, he joined the manifesto, "Io ci sto", whose first signatory is the magistrate Antonio Ingroia, as candidate for prime minister of the Civil Revolution movement .[4]
In 2025, he was sued by Chiara Colosimo for defamation.[5]
Works
[edit]- Lodato, Saverio (1990). Dieci anni di mafia (in Italian). Milano: Rizzoli. ISBN 88-17-53125-1.
- Galluzzo, Lucio; Licata, Francesco La; Lodato, Saverio (1992). Falcone vive (in Italian). ISBN 88-7804-078-9.
- Lodato, Saverio (1992). Potenti (in Italian). Milano: Garzanti. ISBN 88-11-65280-4.
References
[edit]- ^ ROSSO, di UMBERTO (1988-03-17). "DUE CRONISTI ARRESTATI PER LO SCOOP SULLA MAFIA". Archivio - la Repubblica.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-06-02.
- ^ "Home". Errori giudiziari (in Italian). 2023-07-19. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
- ^ "Saverio Lodato". Antimafia Duemila (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-06-02.
- ^ "Io ci sto, anche Gino Strada e Sabina Guzzanti con Ingroia". la Repubblica (in Italian). 2012-12-20. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
- ^ Licata, Francesco La (2025-03-18). "Saverio Lodato, Chiara Colosimo e quelle battaglie dentro la Commissione antimafia". Antimafia Duemila | Fondatore Giorgio Bongiovanni (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-06-02.