Pasquale Chessa

Pasquale Chessa (born 1947) is an Italian historian and journalist.

He first appeared on cultural programs for the Italian National Radio and then, in turn, worked on the Italian magazines L'espresso, L'Europeo, Epoca and Panorama.

In 1995, he edited the speeches of the Italian President Francesco Cossiga titled ''Il torto e il diritto''.

He wrote, in 1995, a book of interviews with the historian Renzo De Felice titled ''Rosso e il nero''. Again with Cossiga, in 2003, he co-authored ''Per carità di Patria''. On the theme of Italian history in the first half of the twentieth century, he has authored: in 2005 ''Guerra Civile 43–45'' (a photographic history); in 2007 ''Italiani sono sempre gli altri'', with Francesco Cossiga; in 2008 ''Dux. Benito Mussolini'' a biography in pictures; in 2010 ''L'Ultima lettera di Benito'' with Barbara Raggi.

Released in the month preceding the historic 2013 re-election of President Giorgio Napolitano, he is the author of ''L'ultimo comunista. La presa del potere di Giorgio Napolitano''. His work is published in Italian with some translations into French.

He is currently the director of the Alguer.it, the newspaper of Alghero in Sardinia and lives between Rome and Paris. Provided by Wikipedia