Victor Civita
Brazilian businessman, journalist
Victor Civita (Italian: [ˈt͡ʃi.vi.ta]; Portuguese pronunciation: [vikˈtoʁ siˈvi.tɐ]; February 9, 1907 – August 24, 1990) was an Italian-born Brazilian journalist and publisher. His family emigrated from Italy to New York in 1938 following passage of the Race Law.2
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Born Feb 9, 1907, died Aug 24, 1990.1
About
In 1949 Civita relocated his family to Brazil, where he established the publishing house Editora Abril in São Paulo, which developed into Grupo Abril, one of the largest publishing houses in the country.
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Companies
- Editora AbrilFounder10
- Grupo AbrilFounder11
- Somos EducaçãoFounder12
Early life and education
Civita was born in New York City, to Italian parents Vittoria Carpi and Carlo Civita (his mother was an opera singer and his father a businessman). The family returned to Italy, settling in Milan, where Victor grew up with his older brother César and younger brother Daniel. Their father was Jewish.
After school and college, Victor followed his older brother into the publishing business. In 1938 the extended family of parents, grown sons and their families, all left Italy because of enactment of the Race Laws against Jews under the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini. They were considered Jewish because of their father. Victor had married Sylvana, a native of Rome. They had two boys, Roberto and Richard.
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Career
Occupation: businessperson, journalist.6
- Date not recordedFounded Editora Abril3
- Date not recordedFounded Grupo Abril4
- Date not recordedFounded Somos Educação5
The extended family lived in New York for a couple of years. His parents and César and his family moved to Argentina. In 1941 his older brother César established the publishing house of Editorial Abril in Buenos Aires. By the 1960s it published nine magazines.
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Personal life
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- 1WikidataVictor Civita on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaVictor Civita on Wikipedia
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- 10WikidataEditora Abril, Founder
- 11WikidataGrupo Abril, Founder
- 12WikidataSomos Educação, Founder
- 13Wikimedia CommonsVictor Civita photo by Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0