[1] Another notable journalist, Sergio Romano, wrote of Gentile that he had an irrepressible tendency to deconstruct fashionable ideas, to puncture the balloons of political rhetoric and systematically to destroy received wisdoms.

During this period, in 1946, Panfilo Gentile was a member of the National Consultation [assembly] ("Consulta Nazionale"), a short-lived appointed "pre-parliament" mandated to create the basis for a return to democratic government.

His own contributions, which appeared under the pseudonym "Averroè" included a political diary and were characterised by a passionate defence of free market economics, invoking the philosophical stance of Friedrich Hayek and his economist allies.

[5] For half a year, between April and October 1952, Gentile ran the Florence based daily newspaper La Nazione in succession to Sandro Volta.

[1] During the 1960s he produced a succession of increasingly shrill political critiques, such as "Polemic against my own times" ("Polemica contro il mio tempo" - 1965), "Displeasing opinions" ("Opinioni sgradevoli" - 1968) and "Mafia democracy" ("Democrazie mafiose" - 1969).

[2] Penfilo Gentile's down-beat evaluation was of modern democracies dominated by party machines, incapable of promoting real talent, and programmed to construct, especially in Italy, oligarchic dictatorship masquerading as political pluralism.