Questo sito utilizza cookie tecnici, analytics e di terze parti.
Proseguendo nella navigazione accetti l'utilizzo dei cookie.

Preferenze cookies

Gaia Servadio (1938-2021)

We are very sad to hear of the passing of Gaia Servadio, last night in Rome, aged 83.

Author of over 40 books, including novels and essays, the London-based Italian novelist, essayist and broadcaster was a prominent figure on the Italian and British cultural scene.

She had written for Il Mondo, La Stampa, il Corriere della Sera, The Times, The Sunday Times, the Observer and the Telegraph Group and also worked for radio and television both in the UK (BBC radio, Channel 4, BBCTV2 and 4) and in Italy (RAI).
She had written on international politics and was a war correspondent, and lectured on a variety of subjects all over the world.
She also had exhibitions of her paintings in Rome and Milan, some of which were sent to group exhibitions from Australia to France.

Among her several novels, Tanto gentile e tanto onesta (1967), Don Giovanni. L’azione consiste (1968), Un’infanzia diversa (1988), La storia di R. (1990), E i morti non sanno (2005) e Raccogliamo le vele – Autobiografia (2014).
She has published some historical essays on various subjects, such as Luchino Visconti (1980), La Donna del Rinascimento (1986), Traviata. Vita di Giuseppina Strepponi (1994), Mozia. Alla scoperta di una civiltà scomparsa (2003) and Gioachino Rossini. Una vita (2015). With Bompiani she published L’taliano piu’ famoso del mondo.

She was a good friend of ICI London, where she hosted many events, book presentations, interviews, conversation and talks, and where she famously organised the meeting between her close friends Primo Levi and Philip Roth. Her last event here was the presentation of her book Giudei, on 12 April last, in conversation with Donald Sassoon and Ian Thomson. You can watch the recording on our Vimeo channel.

If you want to find out more about this extraordinary figure, read Enrico Franceschini’s article for La Repubblica