New podcast with my friend Sebastian Edoardo di Giovanni—Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s biographical sketch of Giulio Andreotti, Il Divo, the major politician of the Christian Democrat party that ruled Italy from 1948 to 1994. It’s also a vision of the great change in Italian democracy in the early ‘90s, from a solemn, but scandalous oligarchic or aristocratic rule to a gaudy & scandalous populism. Mafia assassinations, Cold War CIA extreme rightwing freemason lodge conspiracies, leftwing terrorists assassinating Prime Ministers—but also the rebuilding of the nation after fascism & the World War. We give you an eulogy for a more dangerous, but more serious world!
Sebastian runs an Instagram page with mementos of that Italian First Republic that’s very popular in Italy. You might like that world of glamour & seriousness, secrecy & conflict, too! I also interviewed Sebastian about his education, life, & work in Italy (parts one & two)!
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