Corti received the award for cultural merits. On 6 March 2010, during the meeting called "Eugenio Corti, Brianza and the world: the rediscovery of the Brianza model for the global society in the Third Millennium" that took place in Monza, the committee for Eugenio Corti's Nobel Prize candidacy was officially introduced. On 22 April 2010, in Monza, Corti received one of the special prizes of the "BtoB Awards - Dale Carnegie Training", an event arranged by the Best to Brianza magazine and sponsored by the Italian branch of Dale Carnegie Italia with support from the council of the Province of Monza and Brianza. Via his grandmother, Corti was a first cousin twice removed of Pope Pius X. Nobel Prize candidacy In March 2010, ACIEC (Associazione Culturale Internazionale Eugenio Corti), founded in his honor, started a petition through its website. The aim of the petition is to compel the Swedish Academy to make Corti a candidate for the Nobel Prize for literature. As of September 2010, the petition has been signed by several thousand supporters. Death On 4 February 2014 Corti, aged 93, died at his home in Besana in Brianza. Works Novels I più non ritornano (Few Returned) (1947) Il cavallo rosso (The Red Horse) (1983) Gli ultimi soldati del Re (Last soldiers of the King) (1994)Il Medioevo e altri racconti (2008) PlaysProcesso e morte di Stalin (1962) EssaysIl fumo nel tempio (1995)Breve storia della Democrazia Cristiana, con particolare riguardo ai suoi errori (1995)Le responsabilità della cultura occidentale nelle grandi stragi del nostro secolo (1998)Processo e morte di Stalin (con altri testi sul comunismo) (1999) Pictorial narrationsLa terra dell'indio (1998)L'isola del paradiso (2000)Catone l'antico'' (2005) References External links Eugenio Corti's home page (in Italian) Site of Associazione Culturale Internazionale Eugenio Corti (in Italian) Italian Author, Survivor of Russian Front, Dies, Cotton Boll Conspiracy, February 13, 2014 1921 births 2014 deaths Italian male writers Italian anti-communists Italian soldiers Italian military personnel of World War II Italian Roman Catholics