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Antonio Scarfoglio

Antonio Scarfoglio was the son of Edoardo Scarfoglio and Matilde Serao, both well-known Neapolitan writers of the turn of the 20th century and founders of il Mattino, the large Neapolitan daily newspaper.

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He broke into reporting with a dramatic account of the devastating 1906 eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.

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In 1908 he was one of the three-man team that manned the Züst, the Italian entry in the six-car around-the-word automobile race, known as The Great Race.

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He then reported on the great earthquake in Messina in December, 1908, and in June of the following year reported from Adana, Turkey, on the infamous massacre of the Armenian population.

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