While working as an academic he was attacked by the terrorists on 7 April 1978 which left him paralyzed from the chest down.
[2] He was also author of the biographies of the leading French figures, including Denis Diderot, Voltaire, Victor Hugo and Maximilien Robespierre.
[4] Tanilli was a socialist and believed that socialism is the final step of the progressive reason.
[2] He argued in 1996 that one of the most significant problems that the Western democracies came across in the 20th century was the totalitarian political parties.
[6] The perpetrators were allegedly members of the Hearths of Idealism which is a parameter youth group affiliated with the Nationalist Movement Party.