Alessandro Agostinelli

Alessandro Agostinelli (Italian pronunciation: [alesˈsandro agostiˈnelli]; 1965) is an Italian writer[1], journalist [2][3][4] and poet.

Alessandro Agostinelli in 2019

He obtained a Ph.D. in "history of visual arts and show business".[1]

He worked for Radio 24, Radio Tre Rai, Il Riformista, Il Fatto Quotidiano and L'Unità.[5][4]

One of his topic of interest is the concept of "travel". He writes the travel blog Atlante for the weekly magazine L'Espresso and was of the author of the Lonely Planet's guides in Italian for Tuscany and also specifically for Florence (in 2014).[6]

He is the president of the Società Italiana Viaggiatori[7] and the director of the Festival del Viaggio.[8][9][10]

In 2011 he published Honolulu baby, a book of anecdotes and histories about the Hawaiian Islands but also about the role of writing during travel.[11]

In 2018 he celebrated the 500th year from Leonardo Da Vinci's death with a trip from Vinci to Amboise, in France.[12][13][14][10]

He wrote a biographical novel about Charlie Parker,[2][15] Benedetti da Parker,[8] and the essay Individualismo e Noir about U.S. cinema[16][17] and specifically the economical and social roots of the noir genre and its relationship with the western one.[18]

He has published in Spain his anthological poetry book titled En el rojo de Occidente.[19][20] In 2014 he became in charge of Poesia serie rossa, the editorial collection about poetry of the ETS publisher, one of the few new ones started in Italy at the time.[21]