{{Short description|Italian journalist and essayist (1923–2011)}}
{{Infobox writer | image = Cimitero monumentale di Trento - Tomba di Alfredo Pieroni.jpg | caption = Alfredo Pieroni's grave | alt = | birth_date = {{birth date|1923|5|14}} | birth_place = Trieste, Italy | death_date = {{death date and age|2011|9|28|1923|5|14}} | death_place = Trento, Italy | spouses = Oriana Fallaci<br>Lucia Solmi | children = | awards = | signature = }}
'''Alfredo Pieroni''' (14 May 1923 - 28 September 2011) was an Italian journalist and essayist. In 1975, he became the director of ''Il Resto del Carlino'', a Bologna-based mass-circulation daily newspaper, staying in this charge for two years. He was, in 1958, Oriana Fallaci's partner.
==Biography==
Born in Trieste<ref>{{cite web |url=https://corrieredellumbria.it/news/cultura--spettacoli-e-tv/330156/la-vera-storia-di-alfredo-pieroni-il-primo-grande-amore-di-oriana-fallaci-la-relazione-con-la-giornalista-la-carriera-la-fama-da-don-giovanni.html |title=La vera storia di Alfredo Pieroni, il primo grande amore di Oriana Fallaci: la relazione con la giornalista, la carriere, la fama di don Giovanni |author=Ilaria Albanesi |date=25 February 2025|publisher=corrieredellumbria.it |accessdate=6 March 2025 |language=Italian}}</ref> in 1923, he moved to Rome with his family, where he graduated.{{clarify|date=March 2025}} He began working as a reporter for ''Corriere della Sera'', ''Il Resto del Carlino'', and ''Gazzetta del Popolo''.
He moved to Bonn and then to London as a correspondent for ''La Settimana Incom''; there, in 1958, he met Oriana Fallaci,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ilsussidiario.net/news/chi-e-alfredo-pieroni-ex-compagno-di-oriana-fallaci-per-cui-tento-il-suicidio-dolori-e-un-aborto-spontaneo/2803581/ |title=Chi è Alfredo Pieroni, ex compagno di Oriana Fallaci per cui tentò il suicidio/ Dolori e un aborto spontaneo |author=Giulia Lia Mastrominuta |date=18 February 2025 |publisher=ilsussidiario.net |accessdate=5 March 2025 |language=Italian}}</ref> with whom he began a romantic relationship.
Pieroni died in 2011 and is buried in the monumental cemetery of Trento.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.iltquotidiano.it/articoli/la-storia-di-pieroni-il-primo-grande-amore-di-oriana-fallaci-che-riposa-nel-cimitero-di-trento/ |title=La storia di Pieroni, il primo grande amore di Oriana Fallaci che riposa nel cimitero di Trento |author=Alberto Folgheraiter |date=11 July 2023 |publisher=iltquotidiano.it |accessdate=5 March 2025 |language=Italian}}</ref>
== Books published ==
* Alfredo Pieroni, ''Il figlio segreto del Duce. La storia di Benito Albino Mussolini e di sua madre, Ida Dalser'', Milano, Garzanti. ISBN 9788811600503<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.garzanti.it/libri/alfredo-pieroni-il-figlio-segreto-del-duce-9788811600503/ |title= Il figlio segreto del Duce |publisher=garzanti.it |accessdate=5 March 2025}}</ref> * Alfredo Pieroni, ''Dizionario degli italiani che contano'', Milano, Sperling & Kupfer, 1986. * Alfredo Pieroni, ''E se USA e URSS si alleassero?'', Milano, Sperling & Kupfer, Collana "SAGGI", 1988. * Alfredo Pieroni, ''I russi. L'anima e la storia di un popolo'', Milano, Mondadori, 1992. * Alfredo Pieroni, ''Perché le sinistre non vinceranno mai più a meno che'', Milano, Longanesi & Co, 1996.
== See also ==
==References== {{reflist}}
== External links == *{{IMDb name|2159604}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pieroni, Alfredo}} Category:20th-century Italian journalists Category:Italian essayists Category:Italian male essayists Category:Italian journalists Category:1923 births Category:2011 deaths Category:20th-century Italian male writers