- Vice president of Italy`s public television network RAI and president of "Nostra Italia" (1957).
- The city of Ferrara with its Christian-Jewish life became the main subject of his novels like "Gli occhiali d'oro" (1958) and "Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini" (1962). The motion pictures The Gold Rimmed Glasses (1987) and the Academy Award winning The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970) were based on them.
- He studied at the University of Bologna and graduated in 1939. One year later, he anonymously published (due to Mussolini's racial policy) his first book "Una città di pianura".
- Friend of Pier Paolo Pasolini.
- At the outbreak of World War II, he worked as a schoolteacher in the Jewish School of Ferrara.
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