19 Facts About Vittorio Feltri

Vittorio Feltri was born on 25 June 1943 and is an Italian journalist and politician.

Vittorio Feltri's father died at the age of 43 of Addison's disease.

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

In 1993, Vittorio Feltri refused the offer of Silvio Berlusconi to get involved in Fininvest.

In June 2020, Vittorio Feltri resigned from the Italian Order of Journalists, of which he had been a member since 22 September 1969.

Politically, Vittorio Feltri declares himself an antifascist, anti-communist, Eurosceptic, and liberal conservative, with conservative and liberist views of the economy, and liberal views on issues such as euthanasia, prison reform, prostitution, and recreational drug use.

Vittorio Feltri is a supporter of Silvio Berlusconi and Italy's centre-right coalition, which he saw as the lesser of two evils, preferring the more right-wing Lega Nord and Brothers of Italy, who nominated him for President of Italy in 2015.

In 2019, Vittorio Feltri said that he would be happy if Giorgia Meloni of FdI became Prime Minister of Italy, and said he had voted for Matteo Salvini's Lega in the 2018 Italian general election and the 2019 European Parliament election; for the latter, he was pleased with Lega and the underwhelming results of the Five Star Movement in the province of Bergamo.

Vittorio Feltri became the top candidate of the party for the City Council of Milan elections; elected with 2,268 preferences, he left the office seven months later due to health issues.

Vittorio Feltri married Maria Luisa at a young age, with whom he had twin daughters Saba Laura and Laura Adele.

Vittorio Feltri is a supporter of the Atalanta football club.

On 13 May 2010, Vittorio Feltri spoke on Animal Awareness Day, expressing support for animal rights positions, in particular against sport fishing and in favour of vegetarianism.

In March 2010, Vittorio Feltri was suspended six months from the professional register for the Boffo case, dating back to August 2009, and for the articles signed by Renato Farina, one of the Italian journalists who wrote for the newspaper directed by Vittorio Feltri, published after his disbarment from the register.

Vittorio Feltri later reiterated that the news he published about Dino Boffo, referring to Boffo's conviction of harassment and alleged homosexuality, was true, that he intended to provide information on the hypocrisy of a part of the Catholic world, and that he still felt sorrowful for having caused his resignation.

Vittorio Feltri had used ad hominem, a strategy of rhetoric 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.

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

Vittorio Feltri replied to her "Hitler", provoking controversy both on social media and in the press.

Vittorio Feltri said that he was deeply in love with the city of Naples, its dialect, songs, and culture.

Vittorio Feltri is the author of several books, including Buoni e cattivi.