If a political class reflects its country, then Italy is a country of tribes that have taken turns holding power since 1945: communists, anti-communists, barbarians from the Po valley, Christian Democ...
Filippo Ceccarelli
La Repubblica
Filippo Ceccarelli is an award-winning columnist of the Italian daily La Repubblica. He previously wrote for Panorama and La Stampa. He is the author of Il letto e il potere. Storia sessuale l'Italia da Mussolini a Vallettopoli bis (1994), Lo stomaco della Repubblica. Cibo e potere in Italia 1945-2000 (2000), La Suburra. Storia breve di due anni indecenti (2010) and Come un gufo tra le rovine (2013) and Invano. Il potere in Italia da De Gasperi a questi qua (2018).
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Italian politics today. Music hall farce? Epic tragedy? Or a peep into the future of Western democracy. Vittorio Zucconi in conversation with Filippo Ceccarelli.
