A man known as Italy's Robinson Crusoe who lived alone on an idyllic island for 32 years following a shipwreck has died, Italian media reports. Mauro Morandi, who died on January 3 aged 85 ...

He lived for three decades on a small island off the coast of Sardinia, inspiring international fascination with his real-life adventure story.

Famously known as 'Robinson Crusoe' for his solitary life on a secluded Mediterranean island, Budelli, Italian man Mauro Morandi died at the age of 85, CNN reported. Though Morandi lived a ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome Mauro Morandi, whose 32-year sojourn on an uninhabited Mediterranean island led to his being known as Italy’s Robinson Crusoe, died on Jan. 3 in Modena ...

The volcanic island of Robinson Crusoe, 670 kilometers (416 miles) west of Chile's mainland, was renamed in 1966 after the famous Daniel Defoe novel about a man left to survive on a remote island.

Mauro Da Budelli struggled to adjust to life in society after years of solitude. Mauro Morandi, the Italian man famously known as "Robinson Crusoe" for his solitary life on a secluded ...

Moreover, Knox has long thought to have been the primary source for the character of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, but other theories recently proposed have obscured such a claim. It is hypothesised ...