Giuliano Ferrara
In this period, he also had experience in the world of entertainment as a chorister in the first rock opera created in Italy, Then an Alley by Tito Schipa Jr. with music by Bob Dylan.
[nb 1] In his trip to New York with his brother, Giacomo Ferrara (1947–2023),[5][6][7] in November 1970, in his own words "'when Charles de Gaulle died' is the memory of the teenager who knows everything about Dylan by heart and loves the strong politicians", he assisted Luca Ronconi in directing Orlando Furioso.
Despite this, the two became friends will be a long and honored friendship with maestro Colletti, whom Ferrara described as "soon courageously convert[ing] to the theory of the crisis of Marxism and become a former communist [turned] liberal anti-communist, a little crazy, like his student, but tough.
Having learning the Turinese language, he coordinated political meetings in the small room of the federal committee of Turin under a large reproduction of Guernica, with Luciano Violante and Gian Carlo Caselli; one of the major themes discussed was the fight against terrorism.
[12] On 18 September 1982 in Piazza San Carlo in Turin, the municipality organized the musical event Mille musicisti per la pace (A Thousand Musicians for Peace) with Luciano Berio performing "Accordo".
[nb 2] For the occasion, Ferrara, ten minutes before the start, asked both Berio and the then culture councilor Giorgio Balmas that the concert be dedicated to the victims of Sabra and Shatila massacre but was refused.
[19] Ferrara denied the rumors that he was joining the PSI but at the same time was keen to reiterate that he considered "the basic choices of Craxi and the socialists as the rightest for the country and for the left".
[23][24] During the 1980s, Ferrara began working for Corriere della Sera, signing articles with the pseudonym Piero Dall'Ora and creating the column "Bretelle Rosse".
At the same time, he joined the editorial staff of Reporter, a socialist investigative newspaper directed by Adriano Sofri and Enrico Deaglio, two former leaders of Lotta Continua.
[25] The disciplinary action brought against him by the Italian Order of Journalists to determine the compatibility between the profession and collaboration with a secret service was not followed up, both due to the expiry of the five-year period "beyond which, according to the law professional no.
[31] Starting on 13 February 1989, with a contract that guaranteed him a high salary, Ferrara moved to Fininvest, Berlusconi's holding company, to present Radio Londra on Canale 5.
[39] Since 10 February 1992, after a preview on 20 January, he hosted Lezioni d'amore on Italia 1 with his wife Anselma Dell'Olio; it focused on sex and was inspired by the film Love Meetings by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
[42] Joking on the fact that the ownership of the newspaper was always attributed to Berlusconi's then wife, Ferrara once sarcastically defined himself as a Berlusconist of the "Veronica tendency" to go against "this foolish evil used to degrade Il Foglio",[43] where he took neoconservative positions.
[58] In addition to Ferrara as host, it was interspersed with images of an investigative documentary on the well-known facts by Fabrizio Calvi and Fredric Laurent, with interviews with some of the protagonists of the story.
[59] With the September 11 attacks, his political and ideal positions took an anti-secularist and socially conservative turn; despite being avowedly non-Catholic, he began to support the need to strengthen Judeo-Christian values as the West's bulwark in the face of danger growing Islamic extremism.
[35][nb 4] During the early 2000s, Il Foglio and Ferrara launched a campaign in favour of Barney's Version, which was first published in Italy by Adelphi in 2000 and achieved success in 2001.
After the attempt to join forces with The People of Freedom (PdL), Ferrara anti-abortion list announced its run for the April 2008 Italian general election.
[22] In 1992, when the Tangentopoli scandal broke out and Craxi was forced to leave the party secretariat, he sided with the guaranteeist positions, strongly criticizing the actions of the magistrates.
[106][107] In his July 2017 review on Il Foglio of the latest volume by the Chieti-Vasto bishop Bruno Forte, Ferrara praised a possible agreement between Catholics and Protestants.
[113] The cultural debate on Il Foglio that followed often aimed at making Italian public opinion aware of the positions of the American neoconservatives, and continued into the 2020s.
[114] Ferrara was a supporter of the Nazareno Pact [it] (2014–2015), an alliance for constitutional reforms between the Democratic Party then led by Matteo Renzi and the new Forza Italia of Berlusconi.
Ferrara stated: "Il Foglio, which was a rare and atypical herald of Berlusconi right from the corporate level, initially called him Cav.
[116][nb 10] About the possible birth of an Italian right-wing based on Anglo-Catholic Toryism, Ferrara cited a 2000 essay by Roger Scruton about T. S. Eliot that he summarized as saying that "traditionalism, nostalgia, the traditionalist cultivation of religion as an ideological fetish, are the opposite of true conservatism.
They are more similar, if anything, to the vein of romantic sentimentalism, of generic humanism, which Eliot fought in the name of realism, of restitution in poetry, and in the criticism of the world as it is, without emotional fear of the encounter with ordinary experience, without banal fantasies and dreams.
"[117] He described as new conservatism (neo conservatorismo) the global mainstream right and far-right movements and parties that form alliances based on support for Atlanticism and economic liberalism.
In April 2021, about the European Super League, which he said "crystallizes with an oligopoly of the show part of the eternal competition between rich and poor, and this can be displeasing", and the ensuing criticism and protest, Ferrara stated: "We can invoke the demo-romantic feeling of football as a common good, although even this common goodism of the ball, which is Maradona-thought, clashes with reality, and with the glittering and super-billionaire star system.
"[122] During his career, Ferrara was often targeted by Italian satire for his positions on foreign policy and judicial matters, starting from the weekly magazine Cuore, up to the shows of Roberto Benigni, Daniele Luttazzi, and Sabina Guzzanti.
The 1984 song "La strana famiglia" by Gian Piero Alloisio, recorded as a duo by Enzo Jannacci and Giorgio Gaber, explicitily referred to his frequent political affiliations changes ("And then who is there, ah yes Tamara, a slut from Viale Zara, who gave lessons to Giuliano Ferrara").
[125] In the end, Ferrara simply threw eggs at the television screen in his living room, in front of a camera that filmed him while he attended the Benigni's performance.
[94][140] As reported by Corriere della Sera, he felt ill on the evening of 27 January 2022 while he was at his home in Scansano where he retired to live for some time and manages a farm.
