A renowned journalist and writer, Nantas Salvalaggio was born in Cannaregio, near Madonna dell'Orto, Venice, Italy, and began his journalistic career in Rome. Joining "Il Giorno", he published his first novel "Il vestito di carta", in 1953.
Corresponding with "Epoca" and "Corriere della Sera", from Paris, New York and London, he interviewed Marilyn Monroe after sending her a bouquet of red roses which he bought from a florist at Fifth Avenue, adding a ticket "from an Italian journalist who would like to meet you".
Other famous personalities interviewed by Nantas include Yul Brynner, Ezra Pound, Primo Carnera, and Georges Simenon. While interviewing the latter in New York, Simenon expressed: "there's only one category of men whom I envy - taxi drivers!" Amazed by such a comment, Nantas asked him why. "Because they do not know where are they going to be in fifteen minutes time!", replied Simenon.
Salvalaggio founded the famous Italian magazine "Panorama", in 1962, a Mondadori publication, acting as its director until 1965.
Other publications of his include "Il Campiello Sommerso", winner of the 1974 Premio Campione d'Italia, considered his masterpiece, which was translated into several languages, selling over four million copies in the Soviet Union.
Nantas passed away of renal related complications at the Villa Mafalda Clinic in Rome aged 85. His Funeral Mass was celebrated at the church of Santa Maria in Montesanto in Piazza del Popolo, Rome.
Corresponding with "Epoca" and "Corriere della Sera", from Paris, New York and London, he interviewed Marilyn Monroe after sending her a bouquet of red roses which he bought from a florist at Fifth Avenue, adding a ticket "from an Italian journalist who would like to meet you".
Other famous personalities interviewed by Nantas include Yul Brynner, Ezra Pound, Primo Carnera, and Georges Simenon. While interviewing the latter in New York, Simenon expressed: "there's only one category of men whom I envy - taxi drivers!" Amazed by such a comment, Nantas asked him why. "Because they do not know where are they going to be in fifteen minutes time!", replied Simenon.
Salvalaggio founded the famous Italian magazine "Panorama", in 1962, a Mondadori publication, acting as its director until 1965.
Other publications of his include "Il Campiello Sommerso", winner of the 1974 Premio Campione d'Italia, considered his masterpiece, which was translated into several languages, selling over four million copies in the Soviet Union.
Nantas passed away of renal related complications at the Villa Mafalda Clinic in Rome aged 85. His Funeral Mass was celebrated at the church of Santa Maria in Montesanto in Piazza del Popolo, Rome.
A renowned journalist and writer, Nantas Salvalaggio was born in Cannaregio, near Madonna dell'Orto, Venice, Italy, and began his journalistic career in Rome. Joining "Il Giorno", he published his first novel "Il vestito di carta", in 1953.
Corresponding with "Epoca" and "Corriere della Sera", from Paris, New York and London, he interviewed Marilyn Monroe after sending her a bouquet of red roses which he bought from a florist at Fifth Avenue, adding a ticket "from an Italian journalist who would like to meet you".
Other famous personalities interviewed by Nantas include Yul Brynner, Ezra Pound, Primo Carnera, and Georges Simenon. While interviewing the latter in New York, Simenon expressed: "there's only one category of men whom I envy - taxi drivers!" Amazed by such a comment, Nantas asked him why. "Because they do not know where are they going to be in fifteen minutes time!", replied Simenon.
Salvalaggio founded the famous Italian magazine "Panorama", in 1962, a Mondadori publication, acting as its director until 1965.
Other publications of his include "Il Campiello Sommerso", winner of the 1974 Premio Campione d'Italia, considered his masterpiece, which was translated into several languages, selling over four million copies in the Soviet Union.
Nantas passed away of renal related complications at the Villa Mafalda Clinic in Rome aged 85. His Funeral Mass was celebrated at the church of Santa Maria in Montesanto in Piazza del Popolo, Rome.
Corresponding with "Epoca" and "Corriere della Sera", from Paris, New York and London, he interviewed Marilyn Monroe after sending her a bouquet of red roses which he bought from a florist at Fifth Avenue, adding a ticket "from an Italian journalist who would like to meet you".
Other famous personalities interviewed by Nantas include Yul Brynner, Ezra Pound, Primo Carnera, and Georges Simenon. While interviewing the latter in New York, Simenon expressed: "there's only one category of men whom I envy - taxi drivers!" Amazed by such a comment, Nantas asked him why. "Because they do not know where are they going to be in fifteen minutes time!", replied Simenon.
Salvalaggio founded the famous Italian magazine "Panorama", in 1962, a Mondadori publication, acting as its director until 1965.
Other publications of his include "Il Campiello Sommerso", winner of the 1974 Premio Campione d'Italia, considered his masterpiece, which was translated into several languages, selling over four million copies in the Soviet Union.
Nantas passed away of renal related complications at the Villa Mafalda Clinic in Rome aged 85. His Funeral Mass was celebrated at the church of Santa Maria in Montesanto in Piazza del Popolo, Rome.
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