Mirella Vescovi Tenderini (Acting)

Mirella Vescovi was born in Milan in 1935. She started hiking and climbing at a very young age. In 1961, she married Luciano Tenderini and left a post as a civil servant at the European Community in Brussels to manage refuges with him in various places in the Alps. In 1974 Mirella Tenderini began dealing with art books at Electa and other publishers and in 1982 she founded an international literary agency for art and photographic books. During this period, she takes care of the foreign editions of Walter Bonatti's photographic books, accompanies him in presentations and assists him as an interpreter and translator in his conferences, and begins her activity as Italian correspondent for "Mountain" which opens the doors to the international mountain edition. In Italy, the collaboration with ALP led her to the creation and direction of series of mountain books ("I Cristalli", "I Licheni", "Le Tracce" and "i...Read More