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 ...

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

In time, Mr. Morandi became an island attraction of his own, often compared to the titular castaway of Daniel Defoe’s 18th-century novel “Robinson Crusoe.” But in time, life changed for Mr ...

There are few writers whose lives are as intriguing as their fiction, but Daniel Defoe, author of Moll Flanders, Robinson Crusoe and A Journal of the Plague Year, an account of his survival ...

Mauro Morandi, famously nicknamed "Robinson Crusoe" for his solitary life on the remote Budelli Island in the Mediterranean, has died at the age of 85. Morandi’s remarkable story of self ...