Who is Alessandro Giuli, the new minister of culture

Journalist Alessandro Giuli is the new culture minister, the new incumbent of the Collegio Romano after the resignation of Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano following the Boccia scandal. Giuli has already been sworn in at the Quirinale before President of the Republic Sergio Matterella.

Born in Rome in 1975, the son of a Cisnal trade unionist, and a native of the Marche region, Alessandro Giuli is a journalist, writer and television host: from 2022 until today he served as president of MAXXI in Rome, appointed by the resigning minister Sangiuliano himself. A multifaceted figure in the Italian cultural and media landscape, Giuli, a journalist who has often covered topics in history, philosophy and politics, studied philosophy at La Sapienza University in Rome, but did not earn a degree.

Giuli began his journalistic career in the early 2000s at a number of local newspapers and then moved on to work as an editor for the newspaper Il Foglio, founded by Giuliano Ferrara, becoming a professional journalist in 2004. It was in this context that Giuli developed his style, which combines political analysis, cultural lunges and intellectual provocation. At Il Foglio, Alessandro Giuli has held various roles, first becoming deputy editor (in 2008) and then co-director (in 2017), remaining one of the paper’s top contributors for nearly two decades. His analyses, often against the mainstream media, focused on issues such as geopolitics, the confrontation between East and West, and European identity. During these years, he also collaborated with other Italian newspapers, including Libero, Il Tempo, Linkiesta and the Corriere dell’Umbria, confirming himself as one of the best-known names in right-wing journalism.

In recent years, Alessandro Giuli has also extended his influence to the world of television. He has become known as the star of various TV talk shows and in-depth programs, thus making himself known to the general public as well, especially for his being a well-known polemicist though never over the top. He was for more than a year a regular guest on Patriae, broadcast on Rai 2, a program that addressed current political issues with a critical and cultural slant, after which in 2020 he co-hosted with Francesca Fagnani the program Seconda linea on Rai 2, which was, however, closed after only two episodes. Numerous were his forays to programs such as Otto e mezzo, DiMartedì , and many others. In 2022, as mentioned, he assumed the role of president of the MAXXI Foundation, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts. His appointment sparked heated debate, mainly because of his journalistic rather than artistic background. He is married to Sky journalist Valeria Falcioni, has a sister, Antonella, who is press secretary to Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobridiga, and is the father of two children. In private life, he is passionate about fine wines and cigars.

In addition to his career in journalism and television, Alessandro Giuli is also the author of books that reflect his interest in philosophy, politics, and cultural identity. Among his most significant works is The Goose Step. The Unresolved Identity of the Post-Fascists, published in 2007, a book entirely devoted to the Italian post-fascist right that arose in 1995 following the dissolution of the Italian Social Movement and the birth of Alleanza Nazionale. Giuli himself was a militant member of the far-right Meridian Zero movement as a young man, although he recently used the term “puddles” to refer to those nostalgic for fascism. He has also written books on the sovereignist galaxy(Sovereignism for beginners), on the history of ancient Rome(And Magna Madre came: the rites, worship and action of Cybele Romana). His resume also includes a book of poetry: Dadafleur, published in 2001. His most recent book is Gramsci is alive, published in 2024 by Rizzoli. “Victim of a brutal regime and at the same time theorist of a dictatorship, that of the proletariat, however heterodox, aware that there is no politics without political culture and no culture without deep knowledge of society, of popular traditions, of marginal knowledge coming from the subaltern classes as well as of the expertise of career bureaucracies.” this is how Giuli in an interview with Corriere motivated his decision to write a book on Gramsci. “His idea of hegemony is outdated by the end of traditional parties, but his lesson is always alive. That said, in my Gramsci hovers Giovanni Gentile, with his brood of shareholder philosophers open to dialogue, there is the spirit with which I set out to serve the Maxxi.”

Giuli’s approach, which combines analysis and critique of current events, has made him a reference point for the right, even though his positions are moderate and progressive, so much so that he has described himself as an intellectual “on the left of the right.” In 2018, in a speech at Atreju, the Italian right-wing party, he called Russian President Vladimir Putin “a patriot,” but in 2023 he made an institutional visit to Odessa as president of MAXXI to talk about reconstruction in theUkraine devastated by war, as part of the meetings with which Italy has carved out a lead role in the reconstruction of Ukraine’s major port city.

Who is Alessandro Giuli, the new minister of culture

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