Marco Pivato, journalist, science writer and collaborator of Salute, died on Tuesday around 9pm when he fell from the fifth floor of the Savoia Excelsior Palace hotel in Trieste, where he was staying. Marco was 42 years old, he was married to Alessandra and had a very young daughter, Caterina.
He was the son of Professor Stefano, emeritus professor of Contemporary History at the University of Urbino where he had been Dean of Languages and Rector. Marco had a degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology from Alma Mater in Bologna and had obtained the qualification for the profession of pharmacist. In the meantime he had begun to take his first steps in journalism under the guidance and private lessons of Sergio Zavol. In 2009 he obtained the “Franco Prattico” Master in Science Communication from Sissa of Trieste, specializing in scientific publishing and between 2010 and 2011 he had practiced journalism at the offices of the National Daily QN.
He has published, among others, Snatched Miracle (Donzelli, 2011) and I know the stars (Donzelli, 2011) and, together with his father Stefano, Communists on the moon. The latest myth of the Russian Revolution (Il Mulino, 2017); The obsession with memory: Bartali and the rescue of the Jews: an invented story (Castelvecchi, 2021).