Alfredo Pieroni

Alfredo Pieroni (14 May 1923 - 28 September 2011) was an Italian journalist and essayist. In 1975, he became the director of Il Resto del Carlino, a Bologna-based mass-circulation daily newspaper, staying in this charge for two years. He was, in 1958, Oriana Fallaci's partner.

Born in Trieste in 1923, he moved to Rome with his family, where he graduated.^{[clarification needed]} He began working as a reporter for Corriere della Sera, Il Resto del Carlino, and Gazzetta del Popolo.

He moved to Bonn and then to London as a correspondent for La Settimana Incom; there, in 1958, he met Oriana Fallaci, with whom he began a romantic relationship.

Pieroni died in 2011 and is buried in the monumental cemetery of Trento.

• Alfredo Pieroni, Il figlio segreto del Duce. La storia di Benito Albino Mussolini e di sua madre, Ida Dalser, Milano, Garzanti. ISBN 9788811600503
• Alfredo Pieroni, Dizionario degli italiani che contano, Milano, Sperling & Kupfer, 1986.
• Alfredo Pieroni, E se USA e URSS si alleassero?, Milano, Sperling & Kupfer, Collana "SAGGI", 1988.
• Alfredo Pieroni, I russi. L'anima e la storia di un popolo, Milano, Mondadori, 1992.
• Alfredo Pieroni, Perché le sinistre non vinceranno mai più a meno che, Milano, Longanesi & Co, 1996.