From the Altar to the Dust: Giuliano Gerbi and the Voice of Italian Sport

The beloved sports correspondent, after having chronicled the Tour de France and Bartali’s victory, is “expelled” in accordance with racial laws. Two letters shed light on Corriere della Sera’s editor Borelli’s harassment towards Gerbi. From the altar to dust. Such was the parabola of Giuliano Gerbi (1905-1976), a successful sports journalist until 1938, — favored by an impeccable Tuscan diction and good looks that struck even Joséphine Baker

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