Giuli swore, from the Foglio to the Ministry of Culture, via the Maxxi (and a book on An)
Passionate about Roman culture and art, a convinced Romanist and a wolf-lover, in 2007 he wrote a book 'Il passo delle oche' (The passage of geese) that caused much discussion, especially on the right. This is Alessandro Giuli, the new Minister of Culture
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Alessandro Giuli, journalist, former deputy and co-director of the Foglio and editor of the weekly Tempi, is the new Minister of Culture, sworn in this evening at the Quirinale. Just a few minutes after the resignation of the minister Gennaro Sangiuliano, overwhelmed by the Maria Rosaria Boccia affair, the announcement arrived: the current president of the Maxxi, who had been chosen in November to lead the capital's most international museum by Gennaro Sangiuliano, goes to the ministry of Via del Collegio Romano.
Roman (and convinced Romanista), born in 1975, with two children, studies in philosophy at the Sapienza university and experience at Giuliano Ferrara's Foglio (of which he was also deputy director and then co-director in 2017), Giuli was in the past above all a political journalist who, before his appointment by Sangiuliano, wrote for Libero. A few minutes after Giuli's appointment, Ferrara himself commented on X: 'Well dug old mole #minculpop'.
A passionate connoisseur of Roman culture and art, a lover of the mountains and the countryside, obviously Roman, he has a sort of cult for a particular animal, the wolf, and was also a well-known face on television, where he was often a guest on political talk shows and hosted the programme 'Seconda Linea' on Rai2 (closed, however, after two episodes due to ratings that were not in line with expectations).
Unlike Pietrangelo Buttafuoco , who also had a past at the Foglio and was chosen as president of the Biennale by Giorgia Meloni's centre-right government, Giuli had arrived at the helm of the Maxxi without having any experience in cultural heritage management in his CV, having always been a journalist.
For Einaudi in 2007 he wrote a book entitled: Il passo delle oche - L'identità irrisolta dei postfascisti on the evolution of the Italian right up to Alleanza nazionale. The book had caused much discussion, including on the right. Now the most difficult challenge looms for him: that of managing the Ministry of Cultural Heritage.
