He lived in Syracuse, where he studied at the Gargallo classical high school, and then in Catania where he attended University.
In 1977 he went to Rome to work on the editorial board of the newspaper Lotta Continua, and it was he who wrote and signed the correspondence of May 10 from Cinisi about the death of Peppino Impastato.
[1] For a long time he was director of Il Male, one of the most innovative satire magazines in Italy, founded in Rome in 1977, along with young politicized journalists such as Pino Zac, Vincino, Sergio Angeletti, Enzo Sferra, Jacopo Fo, Cinzia Leone, graphic designer Francesco Cascioli and writers Angelo Pasquini, Sergio Saviane, Alain Denis, Roberto Perini, Riccardo Mannelli, Vauro Senesi.
[2][3] Lillo Venezia was the second Italian journalist to be imprisoned after World War II (a few days in Regina Coeli) after Giovannino Guareschi, following a complaint for insulting religion and a foreign head of state (the Pope).
Some copies of the newspaper were burned in the square by the parish priest of Spilimbergo, who judged it "worthy of falling in the magma of our Italic volcanoes, a congenial seat for similar obsessive publications".