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Vittorio Messori

Vittorio Messori was an Italian journalist and Catholic writer born in 1941.

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Italian journalist and Catholic writer known for exploring religious themes.

About Vittorio Messori

His father, Enzo, a poet in the Modena dialect, after three years in the Royal Italian Army, joined the Littorio Division of the Italian Social Republic and, following a period of training in Germany, fought on the Western Alps front against the French Army. Meanwhile, the family had taken refuge in the Brescia area, from where, after the end of World War II, they moved to Turin, settling in Borgo San Donato, in a building at number 18 Via Sobrero. Here his father found work at the general management of Italgas. Messori attended public schools in Turin. After graduating from the Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio, he enrolled in the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Turin, where he acquired a rationalist and agnostic education. He graduated in 1965 with a thesis on the history of the Risorgimento (supervisor: Alessandro Galante Garrone) and with two other complementary works defended with Luigi Firpo and Norberto Bobbio. But a year before graduating in July...

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