Giuseppe Pederiali

Giuseppe Pederiali was born in the small town of Finale Emilia, in Northern Italy, in 1937. After serving in the Italian Navy in the 1950s, he emigrated to Milan where he became a journalist and subsequently worked for publishers. He published his first novel in 1967; many other novels came along the following years, most dealing with history and/or fantasy. In fact, he is reputed as an initiator of fantasy fiction in Italy. He was also a comics writer under the pen name of Rubino Ventura, an 18th-century military man and an adventurer of Jew descent from his hometown. Giuseppe Pederiali died on March 2, 2013 in a hospital in Milan, about one month after he was run over a pedestrian crossing.