Biography

Mosconi has been a well-known television personality in northern Italy since the 1980s, through his sportscasting on Telenuovo in Verona

Verona

Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...

. In 1982 he received the Cesare D'Oro international award for journalist merit.

He has received most of his notoriety for his short-temper and excessive swearing and blaspheming. His antics received much notoriety on the Internet. In 2004, he was the subject of an anonymous Internet

Internet

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 video that made him known all over Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 and around the world. The video shows some of his off-air bloopers, featuring his irate reactions to various problems (people unexpectedly entering the studio, various noises, illegible writing on the news sheets he receives, or simply his lapsus linguae).

The ample use of swearwords, blasphemy

Blasphemy

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, insults and other rude language both in Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

 and Venetian

Venetian language

Venetian or Venetan is a Romance language spoken as a native language by over two million people, mostly in the Veneto region of Italy, where of five million inhabitants almost all can understand it. It is sometimes spoken and often well understood outside Veneto, in Trentino, Friuli, Venezia...

, as well as other humorous antics, have made this video into a viral video

Viral video

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. Very quickly, many Internet forum

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s discussing Mosconi appeared, as well as fan club

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s in Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 and in other countries, and comic cartoon

Cartoon

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s featuring Mosconi's voice. However, Mosconi has not been receptive of his notoriety, declining every interview or proposal related to the video.

Mosconi is also an editor of the German-language

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 magazine Gardasee Zeitung, dedicated to tourists of Lake Garda

Lake Garda

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, and he is also a reviewer for the sportscasts on Telechiara in Padova (ironically, this channel is owned by the Triveneto

Triveneto

The name Tre Venezie was created in 1863 by historical linguist Graziadio Isaia Ascoli . The area included what would become by 1866-1919 the three Italian regions of Venezia Euganea, Venezia Giulia and Venezia Tridentina...

 episcopate). He also writes for Il Gazzettino

Il Gazzettino

Il Gazzettino is an Italian daily local newspaper, based in Mestre, Italy. Is the main newspaper in the Northeast Italy and is one of the oldest newspaper in Italy.Currently it publishes 8 different local editions:#Venice#Treviso#Padua#Belluno#Rovigo...

 and L'Arena

L'Arena

L'Arena is an Italian local daily newspaper, based in San Martino Buon Albergo, Italy.Founded in 1866, shortly before the annexation of Veneto into the Kingdom of Italy, L'Arena is one of the oldest and the most popular newspapers in Italy.-Website:...

 in Verona

Verona

Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...

.

As of February 2005, he has also worked as a member of the Hellas Verona football club's staff, a position that he left in August.