{{Short description|Italian essayist and journalist}} {{Infobox person | name = Mario Cervi | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1921|03|25}} | birth_place = Crema, Kingdom of Italy | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2015|11|17|1921|03|25}} | death_place = Milan, Italy | occupation = Writer }}

'''Mario Cervi''' (25 March 1921 – 17 November 2015) was an Italian essayist and journalist.

Born in Crema, Lombardy, Cervi started his career as a journalist in 1945 collaborating with the newspaper {{lang|it|Corriere della Sera}} as a foreign reporter.<ref name="La Rep">{{cite news|last1=Redazione|title=Milano, è morto Mario Cervi, fu tra i fondatori de 'Il Giornale': aveva 94 anni |url=http://milano.repubblica.it/cronaca/2015/11/17/news/milano_morto_mario_cervi-127556825/|accessdate=21 November 2015|work=La Repubblica|date=17 November 2015}}</ref> In 1965 he debuted as an essayist with ''Storia della guerra di Grecia'' ("History of the War of Greece"), with references to his experience as an infantry officer in Greece during the Second World War.<ref name="la sta">{{cite news|title=Morto a 94 anni Mario Cervi, con Montanelli fondò Il Giornale|url=https://www.lastampa.it/2015/11/17/cultura/morto-a-anni-mario-cervi-fond-il-giornale-yXs3HBwixT7WbW3gMZzEML/pagina.html|accessdate=21 November 2015|work=La Stampa|date=17 November 2015}}</ref> After about thirty years of collaboration, in 1974 he left the ''Corriere della Sera'' to co-found, with Indro Montanelli, the newspaper ''il Giornale'', in which he was columnist and then also deputy editor.<ref name="La Rep"/><ref name="la sta"/>

With Montanelli, Cervi co-wrote 13 volumes of ''Storia d'Italia'' and the historical essay ''Milano ventesimo secolo''.<ref name="La Rep"/> After following Montanelli in the short-lived newspaper ''La Voce'' in 1994, Cervi collaborated with the newspaper ''La Nazione'' and in 1997 he became editor in chief of ''il Giornale'', succeeding to Vittorio Feltri.<ref name="La Rep"/> He left the direction of the newspaper in 2001, still continuing to collaborate as a columnist.<ref name="La Rep"/> He also continued his activity as an essayist, and his last work was the book ''Sprecopoli'', he co-wrote with Nicola Porro in 2007.<ref name="la sta"/>

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==External links== * [https://www.ilgiornale.it/autore/mario-cervi.html Articles written on ''il Giornale''] {{in lang|it}} {{s-start}} {{s-media}}

{{s-bef|before=Vittorio Feltri}} {{s-ttl|title=Editor in chief of ''Il Giornale''|years=1997–2001}} {{s-aft|after=Maurizio Belpietro}} {{s-end}}

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