Biography
Born on December 1, 1969 in Mesagne, Italy, Cosimo Scarpello is a lawyer and an author.
Graduated in Law from Bologna University, between 1995 and 2000 he was a scientific committee member of the Accademia degli Studi Giuridici ('The Legal Studies Academy'), a Bologna-based high legal education school, with the task to teach criminal law to aspiring magistrates.
In 1998 he wrote nine chapters of a collective coursebook titled Diritto penale, giurisprudenza e casi pratici ('Criminal Law, judgments and practical cases'), Maggioli Editore, directed by Ugo Di Benedetto.
In 1999 he wrote an article on the Judgment no. 1957/99 of the Supreme Court of Italy, which deals with criminal liability of doctors.
In 2002 he wrote a law essay titled L'archiviazione, Cedam, dealing with the end of investigation without prosecution.
From 2006 to 2016 he was a town councilor in San Pancrazio Salentino, Italy, and between 2006 and 2011 deputy major and alderman for culture and legal issues.
In 2012 he wrote a book of political satire titled (Im)passeport: gli strafalcioni della politica o la politica degli strafalcioni? ('Impasseport: the blunders of politicians or a policy of blunders?'), Secop Edizioni; in 2013 an essay titled Stressbook, Secop Edizioni, dealing with the negative impact of social networks on people's lives; in 2015 Perduti ('Lost'), Secop Edizioni, a book in which the author highlights the hardships experienced by the generation of over 40s in a present time marked by a deep economic and anthropological crisis.
In 2017 was released his first novel, La figlia mai avuta ('The daughter he never had'), Secop Edizioni, a psychological thriller about revenge, and in 2019 Le ragioni di una coscienza ('The reasons of a conscience'), Secop Edizioni, a training novel which deals with a story of failure and redemption.
In 2020 and 2021 he trained artistically at the Mediterranean Film Academy in Bari.
In 2021 he wrote the screenplays for four short films, produced by Amarcord: We’ll turn into butterflies, a social drama about youth discomfort; Come tutti gli altri ('Like everybody else'), a drama on the theme of school inclusion; Nel posto giusto ('In the right place'), a comedy of misunderstandings on relationship problems, and Piacere, Zza Zza ('Nice to meet you. My name is Zza zza'), an insane comedy about the new jargon of young people.
In 2022 he wrote and co-directed the short film entitled Bloodymary (Amarcord), a comedy about couple misunderstandings. He later wrote and directed Our job, our duty (Amarcord), a short film about the drama experienced by doctors, nurses and health workers during the pandemic.
In 2023 was released his third novel, L'ombra del senatore ('The shadow of the senator'), Edizioni Esperidi, a legal thriller about a story of intertwining politics and child prostitution, and his seventh short film, A worthless piece of paper (produced by the ‘Epifanio Ferdinando High School’), on the delicate topic of scholastic inclusion.