Giampiero Cotti Cometti


Giampiero Cotti Cometti was an Italian geographer and Marxist, who studied problems of the Third World as well as the mountains.

Biography

Giampiero was born in Lovere. He was a professor of Geography at the University of Turin from 1976 until his death, in Milan, in 2009.
Giampiero dedicated much of his time to translating many texts and geographical manuals from the Russian Academy of Sciences, which he believed was the most advanced level of research and teaching of geography.
To make geographical texts available to aspiring geographers, both for research and teaching, he founded the Cesviet publishing house.
As an advertising journalist Giampiero wrote numerous articles for the 'Page of Science' of the Corriere della Sera.
He is also the author of the voices of Asia, Sahara, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand.

Works