[3] Feltri began his career as journalist in 1962, writing film reviews for the local newspaper L'Eco di Bergamo.

The next year, he agreed to become editor of il Giornale, which was owned by Berlusconi, after its founder Indro Montanelli left.

[12] An advocate of a constitutional monarchy under the House of Savoy,[13] having taken part at the presentation of the 2001 manifesto of the Italian Monarchist Movement,[14] he favours a presidential system over the status quo of a parliamentary republic.

[18][19][20] In the 2015 Italian presidential election held on 29–31 January, Feltri received 49, 51, and 56 votes in the first three rounds, behind only Ferdinando Imposimato.

[2] Widowed in 1967 at the age of 24, with his wife dead due to complications of childbirth, he remarried in 1968 to Enoe Bonfanti, with whom he had two children: Mattia, who is also a journalist, and Fiorenza.

[48][49][50] Feltri reacted to the news by stating: "I am sorry that I am not a pedophile priest or at least a homosexual semi-priest or a left-wing conductor, but that I am simply a journalist who cannot therefore enjoy the protection of the bishops, nor become a martyr of information".

[51] In Italian political journalistic language, the Boffo method means the activity of denigration in the press based on specially constructed false documents.

[52] In December 2011, the Court of Milan sentenced Feltri to compensate Gianpaolo Silvestri, the former Federation of the Greens senator, among the founders of Arcigay, with €50,000 for a homophobic insult.

He had used ad hominem, a strategy of rhetoric also used by the Sophists of ancient Greece, aimed exclusively at damaging the adversary, as opposed to philosopher Socrates, who had the goal of reaching truth.

According to Alessandro Sallusti [it], another Italian journalist, there was nothing wrong with this; according to him, it was unfair to sue after twenty years, and having gained fame.

[55] In 2019, Feltri expressed antisemitic views towards journalist David Parenzo and declared that Jews have bored him with the Holocaust.

[58] In response, he said that he meant to say they were inferior only and exclusively from an economic point of view, in the sense that the production of material (not spiritual) wealth, according to him, was superior in Lombardy rather than in Campania.

[61] In December 2024, he declared in an interview to Belve that he met Pope Francis and that they discussed about common ideas, such as that there is too much homosexuality (using the pejorative word « frociaggine ») in the Catholic Church.

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