Oreste Del Buono (5 March 1923 – 30 September 2003) was an Italian author, journalist, translator, literary critic and screenwriter.Admirers would marvel at the ferocious energy of a man who liked to boast that he needed only two hours of sleep per night. He was also remarkable for the sheer variety of his career. Another of his boasts was that he had been sacked 102 times: it was by most criteria an exaggeration, although there were various publishers of newspapers, magazines and journals for which over the years he was recruited repeatedly (and, logically, which he quit just as frequently).