Folco Quilici
His father Nello, who was a famous journalist, tragically died during the war in what has been remembered as the incident of Tobruch, a fatal plane crush above Libia.An hypothesis, never confirmed but widespread, suggests that the downing was not accidental but rather deliberate, a homicide caused by the disagreements between Balbo and Mussolini.The commentary for the fourteen films was entrusted to important writers and art historians of the time such as Leonardo Sciascia, Giovanni Comisso, Cesare Brandi, Mario Praz, Italo Calvino, Guido Piovene, Michele Prisco, Ignazio Silone, and Mario Soldati.Folco Quilici was nominated for an Academy Awards in 1971 for "Toscana," one of the fourteen films from "L'Italia vista dal cielo."From 1954, he published numerous works of non-fiction in Italy and abroad: "Mala Kebir" (1955), "Mille fuochi" (1964), "Sesto continente" (1965), "Gli ultimi primitivi" (1972), "I grandi deserti" (1972), "Magia" (1977), "Le frontiere di Allah" (1978), "Natura chiama uomo" (1979), "Il riflesso dell'Islam" (1983), "L'uomo europeo" (1983), "India" (1990), "I mari del sud" (1991), "Il mio Mediterraneo" (1992), "La mia Africa" (1992), "Le Americhe" (1993), "Il mio Mar Rosso" (1998), "Tobruk 1940" (2004), "I miei mari" (2006).Starting from 2002, he collaborated on a series of illustrated volumes, with Luca Tamagnini (published by Phoatlante), dedicated to the protected areas of the Italian seas.He ventured into fiction with "Cacciatori di navi" (1985), translated in the United States, "Cielo verde" (1997), a novel long present in the bestseller list in Italy, and in 1998 with "Naufraghi."