Enzo Giudici

Enzo Giudici (24 September 1920 – 4 October 1985) was an Italian academic who specialized in French Renaissance literature, particularly Louise Labé and Maurice Scève.

[4] Giudici also contributed to Fronte Unico, a "virulent"[5] fascist weekly publication directed by Vito Videtta, a member of the extremist Pietro Koch's "gang".

[7] In April 1943, Giudici wrote an article in Universalità e nazionalità delle guerre (Universality and nationality of the wars), published by Libro e moschetto.

[G 2][12] In 1946, he was the vice president of the executive board (vicepresidente dell consiglio direttivo)[13][14] of the newly founded Movimento Italiano di Unità Sociale, which gathered the fascist elit[15] and preceded the MSI.

[38][39] In recognition of his contribution the renewal of interest in these poets,[40] he was awarded for this work a prix d'honneur by the Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon [fr].

[44] Though the Italian historian Carlo Vallauri noted that Giudici "never identified himself"[45] with the MSI, an affinity, sometimes considered as the expression of a "new right"[46][47] "non-conformism",[48] transcures from his later positions on the student movements and on the culture of fascism.

[45] In L' avvento dell'asinocrazia (The Upcoming Donkeycracy)[G 14] and Contestatori alla sbarra (Protesters at the Bar)[G 15] he criticizes the student movement, which had started in Italy in 1967.

[49] The expression avvento dell'asinocrazia was first used in 1968 by Giovanni Sartori in an article published by the Corriere della Sera to characterize the student movement as a "triumph of the donkeys".

[50] In La scuola inutile[G 16] (The ineffective school), initially entitled Asini allo spiedo per il pasto del barone (Jackass on the spit for big shots convenience), Giudici critics not only the "protestive" students, but also the "faint-hearted" political class.