The journalist is dead Ernesto Assante, one of the most famous Italian music critics, radio and television author and presenter. I had 66 years old. He had been caught by one sudden illness last night and was then admitted Umberto I Polyclinic in Rome, where he died late Monday afternoon. His most recent engagements include the Sanremo Festivalof which he had long been a veteran. Born in Naples On February 12, 1958, Assante began his journalistic work in 1977 and worked with the Arbeiterzeitung. In 1978 he worked as a music critic for Il manifesto, for which he wrote until 1984.
In 1979 he began writing for The Republicwhere he was a music critic and Editor-in-chief and finally correspondent. He was a director of McLink and Kataweb and was an employee ofTreccani Italian encyclopedia for entries on the topic of pop music. Assante has collaborated with numerous Italian and foreign weekly and monthly magazines, including Epoca, L'Espresso and Rolling Stone. He created and was responsible for Republic's Musica, Computer Valley and Computers, Internet and Others supplementsTo. He taught from 2003 to 2009 “Theory and Technology of New Media” and later “Analysis of Musical Languages” at the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the University of La Sapienza in Rome.