Edoardo Scarfoglio

Born in 1860 in Paganica, in Abruzzo, Edoardo Scarfoglio became one of Italy’s best-known journalists and newspaper editors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He worked as a reporter, critic, and novelist, and built a reputation for lively prose and strong opinions.

Scarfoglio is especially remembered for the newspapers he helped found and run, including major ventures in Rome, Palermo, and Naples. Together with Matilde Serao, he was a central figure in Neapolitan journalism, and his writing often moved between literature, politics, and close observation of Italian society.

He died in Naples on October 6, 1917. Today he is remembered less for a single book than for the force of his public writing and for the role he played in shaping modern Italian cultural life.