Sgarbi ordered to pay 40,000 euro compensation to Daniele Benati for offending him at time of Bologna exhibition

Vittorio Sgarbi was sentenced by the court of Bologna to pay two thousand euros in fines and forty thousand in compensation to art historian Daniele Benati, a well-known scholar of seventeenth-century art, professor at the University of Bologna and president of the Bologna section of Italia Nostra, for insulting him as part of the controversy that had broken out around the controversial exhibition Da Cimabue a Morandi, curated by Sgarbi in 2015 in the Emilia capital (it was also discussed in our magazine).

The controversy, which soon turned into an argument, arose as a result of Benati’s criticism of Sgarbi’s project, and the subsequent appeal promoted by Benati himself to ask that some works not be loaned to the exhibition. Benati, defended by attorneys Giulio Volpe and Gino Bottiglioni, denounced the many offenses he received between November 2014 and March 2015, and Judge Silvia Monari, while acquitting Sgarbi of some charges, held him responsible for those that were deemed most significant by Professor Benati’s defense.

Sgarbi ordered to pay 40,000 euro compensation to Daniele Benati for offending him at time of Bologna exhibition

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