Raffaele Lauro

Raffaele Lauro (born 10 February 1944, in Sorrento) is an Italian politician, member of the Senate of Italy,[1] prefect and a private adviser for institutional relations and communication.

[citation needed] At the New University of Cinema and Television in Rome, he graduated in Directing Film, with Masters Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani and Florestano Vancini.

[citation needed] For many years, he has taught Law of Mass Communications at the Faculty of Political Sciences at LUISS University in Rome.

During the period in which he took the latter department, he organized the Public Library of Sorrento and established a theatre school, with director Lorenzo Ferrero di Roccaferrera and a theatrical review, with actor Bruno Cirino Pomicino.

From June 2006 until February 2008 he was Special Government Commissioner for the Coordination of Anti-racket and Anti-usury Initiatives and Chairman of the Solidarity Commission for the victims of extortion and usury.

[citation needed] In 2004, in Agrigento, he won the prestigious "Premio Empedocle",[69] in memory of Paolo Borsellino, conferred by the Academy of Mediterranean Studies.

The tour, which lasted a year, has been documented in a book, presented in Sorrento and Manfredonia, to mark the fourth anniversary of the Bolognese artist’s death (March the 1st 2012/March the 1st 2016).

Dante Alighieri Nottingham Society", among those of the major artists (poets, writers and composers), who inspired their work to Sorrento, such as Torquato Tasso, Mary Shelley, Henrik Ibsen, Marion Crawford, Maxim Gorky, Giovanbattista De Curtis and Lucio Dalla.