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4 unusual facts about La Stampa


Assassination of the monks of Tibhirine

In 2008, La Stampa reported that an anonymous high-ranking Western government official, based in Algeria at the time of the murders, had told them that the kidnapping was orchestrated by a DRS-infiltrated GIA group, but the monks had been killed accidentally by an Algerian military helicopter which attacked the camp where they were being held captive.

Bill Emmott

Emmott writes regular columns on current affairs for The Times in London and for La Stampa in Italy.

Pierre Lucien Claverie

In 2008 the paper La Stampa says the death of Bishop Claverie was an extension of the case of the monks of Tibhirine, since it would have been aware of their murder by a helicopter of the Algerian government.

Renato Corti

In November 2007 Corti suspended 3 priests who refused to celebrate Mass on Sunday, according to the newspaper La Stampa.


Lilli Gruber

Gruber has also worked for the Italian daily newspaper La Stampa, and for "Io Donna", the women's magazine of Italy's leading newspaper Corriere della Sera, and for magazines TV Sorrisi e Canzoni and Anna.

Luigi Salvatorelli

Luigi Salvatorelli (1886–1974) was an Italian historian and publicist, born in Marsciano, Perugina Italy, He was a political journalist in 1919 during Benito Mussolini's rise to power and was associated with La Stampa in 1921.

Speculations about Mona Lisa

In January 2010, Dr Vito Franco, professor of pathological anatomy at Palermo University, published research in an article in La Stampa newspaper and at a medical conference in Florence which suggested that Mona Lisa showed clear signs of a build-up of fatty acids under the skin, caused by too much cholesterol.

Yuri Ahronovitch

In Italy Yuri Ahronovitch was awarded the prize "Arca d'Oro 1991" by the leading Italian newspaper La Stampa and the University of Turin.


see also

2010 Meteor Awards

The launch took place in La Stampa on January 7, 2010 and was attended by The Coronas and Danny O'Donoghue from The Script.

Guglielmo Stella

He was artistic collaborator to the journal of La stampa in Venice; also along with Enrico Castelnuovo and Alessandro Pascolato, correspondent del Monde lllustré and of Tour de Monde of Paris, director of the Arte del Mondo Illustrato of Turin and spent some time in Paris.