Luigi Silori ( 19 November 1921 &ndash; 9 July 1983 ) was an Italian literary critic , novelist , playwright , and a popular radio and television personality in the 1950s and 1960s . Descended of an old family from Umbria , at the beginning of his university studies , he was called to military service and he spent four years in the Italian army during World War II . Silori served in the ill-fated Acqui Division and was a survivor of the Cephalonia Massacre . After 1945 , he graduated in Literature and started to write novels and theatrical texts . In 1954 he started to collaborate with Italian Radio Television and he became very popular in Italy as '' the man that introduced the books on TV ''
Cephalonia Massacre
Massacre of the Acqui Division
Luigi Silori