Italianism opens the series “Italian Heritage – Personalities” telling the story of the journalist Ilze Scamparini, granddaughter of Italian immigrants who is already part of the country's history in her field of activity.
Married to Domenico Saverni Mezzatesta and a resident of Rome for over two decades, Ilze is 63 years old and was born in Araras-SP, on December 26, 1958.
Genealogy of Ilze Scamparini
She is the daughter of Irineu Scamparini and Paulina Storolli, both children of Italian immigrants. Irineu was one of five children of Mário Scomparin, born in the city of Fossata di Piavein Venice, in Veneto, and Dusolina Roncolato, Brazilian from Tambaú-SP. They got married in Santa Cruz das Palmeiras-SP, in 1917.
Ilze Scamparini's mother, Paulina, was one of the sisters among the 11 children of Júlio Storolli and Fortunata Campagna, he was the son of Ermogene Storolli, born in Lombardia, and also Italian Rosa Boni.
In turn, Paulina's mother, Ilze's grandmother, Fortunata Campagna, was born in Araras, but was the daughter of immigrants Luigi Campagna, born in Veneto, and Augusta Buriola, born in Udine, in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region.
career start
Ilze graduated in journalism from the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (PUCCAMP) in 1982. At the beginning of her career, she was an intern at the newspaper O Diário do Povo, in Campinas-SP and collaborated with the “Oboré leaflets”, a communication company created in 1978 as a cooperative of journalists and artists to collaborate with social movements and urban workers.
At that time, she transcribed interviews with workers at São Paulo's ABC, during the period in which Lula and the Workers' Party (PT) emerged.
In 1981, she joined television, to work on the TV Mulher program, then directed by Nilton Travesso and Rose Nogueira and presented by Marília Gabriela.
The following year, he became a reporter for TV Campinas, an affiliate of TV Globo, where he covered the long strike of oil workers in Paulínia, led by Jacó Bittar, and documented the meetings of the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops (CNBB) post-Amnesty.
The beginning on TV Globo
In 1984, Ilze moved to Rio de Janeiro and joined TV Globo there. She recorded reports for Jornal Nacional, Jornal Hoje and Jornal da Globo.
After that, he went to TV Globo Brasília, in 1985, where he participated in the coverage of the death of the elected president Tancredo neves and the promulgation of the new Brazilian Constitution, among other great reports.
Responding to an invitation from Alice Maria, who at the time was the station's executive director of television journalism, Ilze Scamparini joined the team of exclusive reporters for the Globo Repórter program in 1986, a role she held until 1996.
Ilze Scamparini leaves Brazil
The following year, she moved to the city of Los Angeles, in the United States, where she began working as an international correspondent. In her new post, she covered two Oscars and the mass suicide of the Heaven's Gate religious sect.
In 1999, the journalist moved to Rome, in Italy, from where he sends articles on politics, culture and behavior, in addition to covering the day-to-day life of the Vatican.
In her mission to tell the daily lives of the heads of the Catholic church, Ilze Scamparini has already traveled with Popes John Paul II, Benedict XVI and the Pope Francis to countries such as Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Turkey and Angola, in addition to accompanying visits to Brazil.
Historical coverages
The journalist has dozens of notable international coverages to her credit, such as the wake of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Cairo, in 2004; the aftermath of the terrorist attack that killed hundreds of children at a school in Beslam, Russia, also in 2004; and the ceremonies marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall, in Germany, in 2009.
She was the first reporter for the network to broadcast images from abroad via the internet. Her work as a correspondent in Rome served as the model adopted by TV Globo in Jerusalem, Paris, Lisbon, Berlin, and Buenos Aires.
In addition to her native language, Ilze Scamparini speaks fluent Italian, Spanish and English.
Curiosities about Ilze Scamparini
An interesting fact about her career is that when Pope Benedict XVI resigned in 2013, Ilze was in Brazil enjoying her vacation. That's why the news was broadcast on Jornal Nacional by Marcos Losekan, a correspondent in London, who traveled to Rome for the mission.
Another notable passage was the question that Ilze Scamparini asked Pope Francis on the flight between Brazil and Rome, in a press conference after he visited the country, also in 2013.
It was responding to the reporter on the delicate topic of the “gay lobby” in the Vatican that the Pope made a statement that would break paradigms of the Catholic Church and guarantee headlines around the world: “If a person is gay, seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge her?”
The rooftops of Rome
A hallmark of her live appearances on Globo's news programs are the rooftops of Rome that appear behind her. In an interview, she explained that she found a wonderful terrace to record her stories and the landscape ended up becoming a differentiator, since in the Vatican recordings are not permitted.
At the beginning of July, Ilze was at the São Paulo Book Biennial, where she launched her first novel, “Atire Direto no Meu Coração”, and participated in the round table “Ser Jornalista no Brasil”, with Daniela Arbex and Miriam Leitão.
By Roberto Schiavon / Italianism
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