Untold

Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, anarchist and heir to billions, was more than a brilliant intellectual and publisher. He became an epic symbol, and yet he remains a mystery to this day.

The violent death of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, international publisher of enormous inherited wealth, a socialite, womanizer and radical anti-capitalist political crusader is an unsolved mystery, an enigma to this very day. On March 16, 1972, the internationally renowned publisher of Doctor Zhivago, was found dead at the foot of a power plant outside Milan. The publisher of Castro, Che Guevara and Ho Chi Min, the man who wanted to be the leader of a European Revolution, had been on the radar of the CIA, the KGB, the Mossad, as well the Italian secret services. Was his death accidental, or was it murder? With access to tens of thousands pages of recently revealed documents, exclusive interviews and intelligence sources, the author recounts an extraordinary story of intrigue, passion and betrayal.

Giangiacomo Feltrinelli’s life and violent death reads like an intellectual thriller in which books and bombings collide, a life fuelled by money, passion and politics, where mansions and libraries are ransacked for clues, a personal destiny connected to the fight between network of terrorists and secret services.
Still today the Cia denies access to the documents related to the political and subversive actions of Feltrinelli, a close friend of Castro who was also financing the extreme left wing movements all over the world and supporting the Palestinian terrorists. His life ended in a mystery that nobody after years of research, has been unable to solve. Until now. Giangiacomo Feltrinelli’s story is a fascinating microcosm of the left in the 1960s and early ’70s, and a remarkable chapter in the history of publishing. It is also an inexplicable familiar tragedy.

Corriere della Sera

Il Buongiorno

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