[2] He travelled to European capitals (Paris, London, and Vienna) recently emerged from the war, which directed him to a diplomatic career.

From 1968 to 1977, he was in Paris and, after being general manager of cultural relations and Ambassador to NATO (1983–85), he concluded his diplomatic career in Moscow, in the then Soviet Union.

He talks about this experience in the book Memoirs of a Conservative (2002), concise portrait of the bureaucratic class and Italian diplomacy (and not only) in the era of the Cold War.

He became a commentator for a number of Italian newspapers and magazines (La Stampa, Corriere della Sera, Limes, Il Mulino), the editor of a historical series for the publisher Corbaccio.

Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1st Class / Knight Grand Cross – 27 December 1987 I took ten months of practical training in a small newspaper of Piedmont, which, however, closed.