Giuseppe di Piazza
Week of Italian Language
In THE FOUR CORNERS OF PALERMO, Giuseppe Di Piazza uses his real-life experience as a crime reporter to bring to life the second mob war of Palermo. In his newspaper career, Di Piazza covered the murders of over 300 people, many of whom he knew personally: officers, judges, and politicians. This book is his attempt to explain these dark events to his sons and the world at large.
As our crime reporter looks back on his own youth, he lyrically retells four tragic stories that marked him: a Mafioso who refused to become a professional killer; a model whom he loved and couldn’t save; a father who succumbed to hatred and jealousy; and a daughter in search of her lost honor.
Giuseppe Di Piazza started his career in 1979 at the newspaper L’Ora di Palermo, where he covered the second mafia war, in which hundreds were killed or went missing over five years. In 1984 he moved to Rome to work for Cooperation magazine, published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Soon after, he participated in the launch of the Reporter newspaper before moving to Il Messaggero, where he remained for fifteen years.
In addition to serving as the former editor-in-chief of Max magazine, he has also directed the weekly Corriere della Sera Magazine, returning it to its original name of Sette as well as working as a columnist and manager of their new initiatives.