November 2021, Year XIII, n. 11
Pietrangelo Buttafuoco
Who am I? An Artist
Telos: Right now, we are facing an unprecedented transition in Italian political history that corresponds to a political landscape with very few points of reference. Could you help us understand the trajectories of the main parties? What impact will their experience of (or opposition to) the Draghi government have on them?
Pietrangelo Buttafuoco: I believe this is an unusual time for politics, not so much because of the overall context, that of the pandemic, but because the Italians found either the man of their destiny or the man of Divine Providence.
Right now, we are experiencing what we could define as the “Duce-isation” of Mario Draghi. Not so much because he wants so but because of what others want him to be and the ineptitude of the political framework, which should tune in to times of transformation and change ...more
Editorial
Our talk with Pietrangelo Buttafuoco gave us the opportunity to contemplate the big fresco of Italian politics, and it is all the more valuable and ennobled by how elegantly he expresses himself and his ability to grasp the dramatic and melodramatic aspects of and the link between the nature of national politics and the anthropology of the Italian people.
This is rocky terrain, and you need to proceed with great caution, especially in order to resist the temptation to unduly apply abstract moral categories to political phenomena ...more
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