Sandro Gerbi
Alessandro Gerbi, known as Sandro (born October 3, 1943 in Lima, Peru) is an Italian journalist, author of several biographies and books on Italian contemporary history. Biography Sandro Gerbi was born in Peru because his father Antonello (1904-1976), who at the time was senior economist of Banca Commerciale Italiana, had been transferred there in 1938 by his boss, Raffaele Mattioli. As a matter of fact, Antonello was in the verge of being dismissed from his job as a consequence of Italian racial laws (against people of Jewish origins). Antonello, in 1940, married his Viennese girlfriend, Herma Schimmerling (1912-2012), who had joined him in Lima. They had two children: Daniele (b. 1941) and Sandro (b. 1943). In the spring of 1948, the Gerbi family returned to Milan, where Sandro completed his secondary education (at the Liceo Classico "A. Manzoni”), and later (1967) obtained a law degree from the local Università degli Studi (University of Milan). Sandro Gerbi was first employed (in 1968) at Banca Italo-Israeliana in Milan, and subsequently spent 6 months in the United States at Underwood Typewriter Company (as an intern) and Southern Methodist University (attending a summer course in International Law). By the end of 1969 he was