Paolo Pillitteri
Paolo Pillitteri | |
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Mayor of Milan | |
In office 21 December 1986 – 18 January 1992 | |
Preceded by | Carlo Tognoli |
Succeeded by | Giampiero Borghini |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 12 July 1983 – 1 July 1987 | |
In office 23 April 1992 – 14 April 1994 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Gian Paolo Pillitteri 5 December 1940 Sesto Calende, Italy |
Political party | PSI (1966–1969, 1976–1994) PSDI (1969–1975) |
Spouse(s) |
Rosilde Craxi
(m. 1965; died 2017)Cinzia Gelati (m. 2022) |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | University of Milan |
Profession | Journalist |
Gian Paolo Pillitteri (born 5 December 1940) is an Italian former politician, film critic, and journalist. He was affiliated with the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI). Pillitteri began his political career when the PSI and PSDI were unified. Following the 1969 party split, he joined the PSDI, which at the time was known as the Unitary Socialist Party (PSU), before it became the PSDI in 1971.
After returning to the PSI in 1976, Pillitteri served in the Chamber of Deputies in the
Early life and education
Pillitteri was born in
Pillitteri was one of the young people who walked seventy kilometers in England in one of the peace marches promoted by Bertrand Russell. He recalled that "the first of these marches was spontaneous, I remember that Guido Piovene was also there, only later, when there started to appear the party flags, I no longer participated."[1] He graduated in literature at the University of Milan and became a journalist.[2] From his university years, his passion for cinema also manifested itself. He was president of the Milan University Film Centre. Having completed his studies, Pillitteri began his activity as a journalist and film critic, and collaborated with Avanti!, Mondoperaio, and Critica Sociale.[1]
Career
After having worked as a journalist, film critic, and cultural animator (he created one of the first film clubs in Milan), Pillitteri began his political career within the PSI. The PSI–PSDI's unification led to the establishment of the PSU. Following a split in 1969, he joined the PSDI and in 1970 became part of the Milan councilor for culture. During his mandate, the city went through a moment of great artistic and cultural vivacity. Among the exhibitions held in those years there was the one dedicated to nouveau realism, which culminated with
In 1975, with the PSI's autonomist turn looming, Pillitteri founded the Unitary Movement of Socialist Initiative, which merged into the PSI on the threshold of the "revolution of the forty-year-olds" that in July 1976 brought Bettino Craxi to the party secretariat. As councilor with responsibility for private construction, he developed the general master plan of Milan. He was an uninterrupted member of the municipal council for over a decade until 1980, also holding the position of councilor with responsibility for the budget. Following his appointment as regional secretary of the PSI, he was elected deputy in the 1983 Italian general election, remaining in this position for eleven years until 1994.[4][5][6]
Pillitteri became mayor of Milan, succeeding fellow PSI member
In early May 1992, Pillitteri received, together with Tognoli, a warning for the crime of receiving stolen goods in relation to 500 million lire, as part of the Mani pulite investigation. He was definitively convicted of the crime, with a sentence set at 2 years and 6 months by the Court of Appeal of Milan in 1996. He was initially sentenced to 4 years and six months for receiving stolen goods and financing illegal to the parties, which means he would have gone to prison; his lawyers managed to reopen negotiations on the decree of execution of the sentence until it was reduced to three years, which was the limit that avoids prison time, and thus Pillitteri was sentenced to social services. According to the prosecution, he had collected 650 millions of bribes from executives from Aem, the municipal electricity company, another 100 million from Mario Chiesa, and 7 million from Matteo Carriera, the owner of IPAB, the charitable institute best known for the benefits offered to the general staff of the PSI.[8] Since then, he returned to his journalistic career; he also hosts programs on small broadcasters and is often a guest commentator.[1] In 2022, he called the Mani pulite investigative pool the Great Caesura, and said: "Since politics is a generic, elusive fact, to eliminate it they struck at its incarnation: the parties. With Tangentopoli, politics was mortally wounded: first they criminalized it and then, in a continuous process of devaluation, we arrived at today's indistinct magma."[9]
Parallel to his twenty-five year political career within the PSI, Pillitteri collaborated with several important socialist newspapers, such as Avanti!, and was also co-director of the newspaper L'Opinione delle Libertà.[7] He was a professor of film history at the IULM University of Milan and a prolific author of books and essays concerning cinema and political activity,[10] including among others Anna Kuliscioff (1986), Maestri Autori Eventi (1986), Fra suspense e psicanalisi. Il cinema di Alfred Hitchcock (1991), Un cuore grande così: Edmondo De Amicis (1989), Cinema come politica (1992), Io li conoscevo bene (1994), La Baracca di Fellini (1995), Il cinema tra fiction e falsità. Simili, facsimili, quasi falsi, falsi storici. Quando il cinema all'italiana manipola la nostra storia (2000) Evìto. Dos pesos y dos misuras (2002) Quando Benedetto divenne Bettino (2007) Non è vero ma ci credo. Immagini, simulacri, inganni (2009), and Luca Comerio. Milanese. Fotografo, pioniere e padre del cinema italiano (2011),[11] and Tutto poteva accadere (2015).[12] As of 2022, Pillitteri was head of the press office of MM, the Milan metro company.[9]
Personal life
In 1965, Pillitteri married Rosilde Craxi, sister of the former PSI leader Bettino Craxi; their marriage lasted until her death in 2017.[13] His son Stefano Pillitteri, a criminal lawyer, was a municipal councilor in Milan for Forza Italia (FI).[14] He had responsibility for quality, citizen services, civic services, and regulatory simplification within the centre-right coalition municipal council (FI/The People of Freedom–Northern League) led by mayor Letizia Moratti for five years from 5 June 2006 until 1 June 2011; his daughter Maria Vittoria also held various important roles in Mediaset. On 10 June 2022, Pillitteri remarried to Cinzia Gelati, a journalist from Canegrate; they were initially supposed to marry in February 2010 but Pillitteri was ill and had been hospitalized at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan.[15]
Pilitteri met
References
- ^ a b c d e f Emanuelli, Massimo (19 March 2018). "Paolo Pillitteri". MassimoEmanuelli.com (in Italian). Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ a b "Gianpaolo Pillitteri / Deputati / Camera dei deputati − Portale storico". Camera dei Deputati (in Italian). 2016. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ Bazzini, Marco (27 November 2020). "La storia del Nouveau Réalisme a Milano". Artribune (in Italian). Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ "Scheda del deputato − IX Legislatura". Camera Legislature (in Italian). 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ "Scheda del deputato − XI Legislatura". Camera Legislature (in Italian). 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ "Pillitteri Gianpaolo". Dipartimento per gli Affari Interni e Territoriali (in Italian). 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ ISSN 2499-4189. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ISSN 0391-7002. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ ISSN 1128-6164. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ "Paolo Pillitteri − Tutti gli articoli". Il Sussidiario (in Italian). 2009. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ "Paolo Pillitteri". Spirali (in Italian). 2020. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ISSN 1128-6164. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
- ^ "Rosilde Craxi, l'abbraccio de 'L'Opinione' a Paolo Pillitteri". L'Opinione delle Libertà (in Italian). 25 September 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ISSN 2532-4071. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ISSN 2499-4189. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ISSN 2499-0485. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
Further reading
- Franchi, Paolo (11 January 2010). "Quel Bettino Craxi di Minoli che sa stare lontano dai 'due tribunali'". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). ISSN 2499-0485. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- "Opnioni: TV stampa e Web di Vittorio Feltri, Fedele Confalonieri, Paolo Pillitteri, Davide Mengacci". Tecnologo per caso (in Italian). 2009. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- Panza, Pierluigi (31 July 2020). "Christo a Milano, cinquant'anni fa: quando 'impacchettò' il Re e Leonardo". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). ISSN 2499-0485. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
External links
- Paolo Pillitterri interviews at Il Sussidario (in Italian)