Francesco Maurizio Cossiga was an Italian politician. A member of Christian Democracy,he was prime minister of Italy from 1979 to 1980 and the president of Italy from 1985 to 1992. Cossiga is widely considered one of the most prominent and influential politicians of the First Italian Republic.
la Repubblica is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper with an average circulation of 151,309 copies in May 2023. It was founded in 1976 in Rome by Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso and led by Eugenio Scalfari,Carlo Caracciolo,and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore as a leftist newspaper,which proclaimed itself a "newspaper-party". During the early years of la Repubblica,its political views and readership ranged from the reformist left to the extraparliamentary left. Into the 21st century,it is identified with centre-left politics,and was known for its anti-Berlusconism,and Silvio Berlusconi's personal scorn for the paper.
il Giornale,known from its founding in 1974 until 1983 as il Giornale nuovo,is an Italian-language daily newspaper published in Milan with an average circulation of 28,933 copies in May 2023. In 2006,it was considered one of Italy's main national newspapers in Italy.
The Bologna massacre was a terrorist bombing of the Bologna Centrale railway station in Bologna,Italy,on the morning of 2 August 1980,which killed 85 people and wounded over 200. Several members of the neo-fascist terrorist organization Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari were sentenced for the bombing,although the group denied involvement.
Libera UniversitàInternazionale degli Studi Sociali "Guido Carli",known by the acronym "LUISS" or "LUISS Guido Carli",is a private university located in Rome,Italy,founded in 1974 by a group of entrepreneurs led by Umberto Agnelli.
Maria Rosaria "Rosy" Bindi is an Italian politician and the former president of the Antimafia Commission. She began her political career in Christian Democracy (DC),becoming a member of the European Parliament in 1989. After the dissolution of the DC,she joined the centre-left-leaning Italian People's Party (PPI) in 1994 and Democracy is Freedom –The Daisy (DL) in 2002.
Tullio De Mauro was an Italian linguist and politician. De Mauro was Professor Emeritus of General Linguistics at the Sapienza University of Rome,and held the post of Italian Minister of Education from 2000 to 2001.
Roberto Saviano is an Italian writer,essayist,journalist,and screenwriter. In his writings,including articles and his book Gomorrah,he uses literature and investigative reporting to tell of the economic reality of the territory and business of organized crime in Italy,in particular the Camorra crime syndicate,and of organized crime more generally.
Sergio Mattarella is an Italian politician,jurist,academic,and lawyer who is currently serving as the 12th President of Italy since 2015. He is the longest-serving president in the history of the Italian Republic. Since Giorgio Napolitano's death in 2023,Mattarella has been the only living Italian president.
Giacomo del Pò,also spelled del Po,was an Italian painter of the Baroque. He was born in Palermo,the son of Pietro del Pòwho was also his teacher.
Vittorio Feltri is an Italian former journalist and politician. Among the many Italian newspapers he directed,he was most recently the editor-in-chief of daily Libero until 2020,when he ended his professional journalist career due to a number of controversies and disciplinary proceedings. As a member of the Brothers of Italy party,he was a member of the City Council of Milan from 2021 to 2022,and is a member of the Regional Council of Lombardy. He is the author of several books.
Giorgia Meloni is an Italian politician who has been serving as the prime minister of Italy since October 2022,the first woman to hold this position. A member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2006,she has led the Brothers of Italy (FdI) political party since 2014,and she has been the president of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party since 2020.
Brothers of Italy is a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party in Italy,the country's largest after the 2022 Italian general election. The party is led by Giorgia Meloni,the incumbent Prime Minister of Italy. According to observers,Meloni's has been the "most right-wing" republican government,thus since World War II.
Pasquale Chessa,born in Alghero,is an Italian historian and journalist.
Forza Italia is a centre-right political party in Italy,whose ideology includes elements of liberal conservatism,Christian democracy,liberalism and populism. FI is a member of the European People's Party. Silvio Berlusconi was the party's leader and president until his death in 2023. The party has since been led by Antonio Tajani,who had been vice president and coordinatior and now functions as secretary. Other leading members include Elisabetta Casellati.
The Mazzarella clan is a Campanian Camorra clan operating in the city of Naples. The clan is historically considered one of the most powerful groups of the Camorra.
Gennaro Licciardi was a powerful Italian Camorrista in the north region of Naples,founder of the Licciardi clan,and one of the founders of the Secondigliano Alliance.
Francesco Paolo Figliuolo is an Italian army corps general. On 1 March 2021,he was appointed by Prime Minister Mario Draghi as Extraordinary Commissioner for the Implementation of Health Measures to Contain the COVID-19 pandemic,to lead the vaccination campaign.
The Meloni government is the 68th government of the Italian Republic,the first headed by Giorgia Meloni,leader of Brothers of Italy,who is also the first woman to hold the office of Prime Minister of Italy. The government was sworn in on 22 October 2022. It was one of the fastest government formations in the history of the Italian Republic. It was variously described as a shift to the political right,as well as the first far-right-led coalition in Italy since World War II.
Francesco Giubilei is an Italian publisher,columnist,and conservative writer. From December 2022 to June 2023,he was a special advisor for the Italian Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano.
