Mario Pirani was an Italian journalist, he was born in Rome but left the Communist party after the Soviet invasion of Hungary.
Mario Pirani Coen (3 August 1925  18 April 2015) was an Italian journalist, economist, and writer. Born in Rome, he became a member of the Association of Journalists of Lazio in January 1958. Politically closed to the Italian Communist Party, he left it after the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. 
