Authors From Italy

"letters anonymous are a providence. In view of fundamental human cowardice, it is providential that one can make one thing known or give advice without risking anything."

"We went alone, outside the Cave, to Pozzuoli, to Baja.... What a heaven! What a sea... Do you know the grove behind Lake Lucrino, on the way to the Sibyl's cave? The land is sloping; You proceed at random, pushing aside the branches that touch your face. Through the foliage of the chestnut grove filters a fantastic, féerie-like green light; It seems to swim in the middle of the fluid emerald.... On May 20th... Era de maggio e te cadeano 'nzino A schiocche a schiocche le cerase rosse..... The redheads, the sweets, the fresh ciriegie were her lips...."

"To take Fede lightly is foolish, it is not to understand how the system works."

"Faith shifts consensus, those that are needed, in a bipolar system, to make one or the other win."

"Faith doesn't make me laugh. It's a human case and I understand that. But it speaks to 2 million people who don't read newspapers."

"A man who has done nothing but be a friend of Berlusconi [...], whose merit is no less than that of Biagi, for journalism. [...] Faith has been mortified, humiliated, condemned by a people's tribunal made up of criminals! (Vittorio Sgarbi)"

"Mr. Fede, I thank you, but my name is God, not Silvio . And how, does he say "precisely"? Sorry Peter, but what does this do? Director of a TV news... I don't believe it, come on! (Roberto Benigni)"

"If there were an Emilio Fede on the left, he would say that Emilio Fede, the real one, with his contemptuous gunshot about Roberto Saviano, expressed an opinion about Saviano very similar to that of the Casalesi family. (Michele Serra)"

"Retequattro is a service network, it does a lot of it, Emilio Fede's service to Forza Italia. (Alberto Castagna)"

"For heaven's sake: I love Emilio Fede as if he were normal. (Roberto Benigni)"

"I don't know how Borrelli could act as director of Tg4, but Emilio Fede at the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office would guarantee a system much closer to the rule of law and to what the judicial system should be in a liberal-democratic state. (Silvio Berlusconi)"

"He was definitely not a great journalist. He was a lucky man, he was in the right places at the right times, like in the famous explosion of the first Gulf War, but he was not a great journalist. He was totally devoid of the ability to teach, to create a real newsroom. Fortunately, there is no such thing as a Fedian school. (Alessandro Cecchi Paone)"

"He had never read the works of Emilio Fede, even though he knew that he had written many children's books. Not on purpose. (Daniele Luttazzi)"

"Federico de Roberto, Spasimo, Galli Publishing House, C.E.1897."

"Federico de Roberto, Processi verbali, Sellerio Editore, Palermo, C.E.1990."

"Federico de Roberto, Leopardi, Treves, 1921."

"Federico de Roberto, La sorte, Libreria editrice Galli, C.E.1891."

"Federico de Roberto, La paura, in Romanzi, novelle e saggi, edited by Carlo A. Madrignani, Collezione I Meridiani, IV edizione, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan, C.E.1998. ISBN 88-04-21998-2"

"Federico de Roberto, La morte dell'amore, publisher Maia, Milan, C.E.1928."

"Federico de Roberto, L'Imperio, Oscar Mondadori, Milan C.E.1981."

"Federico de Roberto, L'arte, Fratelli Bocca, C.E.1901."

"I would never go back to work with Emilio Fede, who has little faith, at least in the others. (Simona Izzo)"

"I have very good relationships, I never see him. More than Faith, we need hope and charity. (Ezio Greggio)"

"On Thursday evening, Emilio Fede made a surprise announcement on his Tg4: "Now," he said, "I want to talk to you about information." There's always a first time. (Indro Montanelli)"

"Fede has the long antennae to capture the feelings of public opinion. (Ugo Intini)"

"Fede makes the most spectacular news of this century, all my friends watch it. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the fall of communism, the fall of values, someone like Emilio must be safeguarded as the panda is safeguarded. I would give him the Pulitzer Prize. Our intention is to put it there and study it, as an absolute phenomenon, as if we were in a medical classroom. (Piero Chiambretti)"

"Faith is a court jester. His licking is so pronounced that it makes Berlusconi. (Paolo Serventi Longhi)"

"Fede is grateful to Berlusconi because he has never abandoned him. Berlusconi is good. He never abandons anyone. (Alfredo Biondi)"

"We must prepare to apologize to Emilio Fede. We have always portrayed him as a bootlicker, indeed as the archetype of this jester fauna, with the aggravating circumstance of joy. Often the bootlickers, after licking, and when the master does not see them, make a disgusted face and become mischievous. Faith does not. Having fulfilled the need, he smiles and is ecstatic about it, like a joyful goose. But I fear that in a little while we will have to change our minds about him, regret his speeches and hold them up as a model of objectivity. (Indro Montanelli)"

"There is a question via e-mail for Emilio Fede, asked by Erika from Osio Sotto, Bergamo: "I heard that in a couple of years Tg4 will go on satellite. Is it true that Berlusconi, knowing that you are going up, asked you to inquire if Mars is buildable?" (Gene Gnocchi)"

"Berlusconi is to politics what Emilio Fede is to information. ([[Antonio Di Pietro)"

"Am I biased? How cool. Faziosi are the Santoro, the Lerner. I have been a professional journalist for 52 years, there can be no doubt about my freedom. Veltroni I've known him since I was a child, I have a very good relationship with D'Alema, Diliberto, Bertinotti, Bersani, Rutelli, Napolitano. The one I don't respect at all is Prodi. And Di Pietro: shouts and insults. I have never insulted anyone."

"[Su Silvio Berlusconi] A non-politician who takes care of the country as if it were his company. In Pratica di Mare he put an end to the Cold War, the EU is following him to get out of the financial crisis, he was decisive for the conflict in Georgia. History will recognize his greatness."

"But Briatore was implicated in a big mafia story, the car bomb there that killed an industrialist in Cuneo... and the two of them were together, the Santanchè and Briatore."

"The 2 [ Berlusconi and Dell'Utri ] at a certain point they began to get together for construction and things [...]. After that, what later became a company was born [...]. Berlusconi didn't have a penny [...] Dell'Utri supported him. [...] The Dell'Utri meeting is there, you understand the relationship between the mafia, the mafia, the mafia, the money, the mafia, the money. Dell'Utri was pretty much the one who invested, so what happens? Here there was an investment of mafia money."

"[The evenings at Arcore] They were simple dinners. Immediately afterwards we went downstairs and those who wanted to danced. The magistrates misunderstood. [[Silvio Berlusconi|Berlusconi told me one evening to just look at my plate, but he only said that because he was on a diet. I have a career behind me, do you think I can confuse myself with certain people? Lele Mora, the Minetti who does the job she does [...]. Just think that one evening, when Nicole Minetti was bare-breasted, Berlusconi immediately threw a shawl at her to cover her."

"[On the Vermicino incident of June 10, C.E.1981] At that moment, anything could happen [...] a coup d'état, assuming there was the atmosphere, the air, or the intentions on the part of somebody, and the people would say, "All right, let me hear what is happening in Vermicino.""

"[On the investigation of the Ruby case] It is my right to be acquitted."

"But these interceptions... Today I read them for the first time, it's stuff that horrifies guaranteeism. Mind you, I am in favour of wiretapping. But when they need to find Totò Riina. Or to identify the leader of the Casalesi family. Not to understand if someone has groped someone. But do you realize? In the newspapers, entire pages of groping... From"

"If any of the accusations against me are confirmed, I will leave the direction of Tg4. (January 14, C.E.2011)"

"In two years, I have filed 38 complaints for threats and have been traveling under guard for some time. I don't care about threats. Much less the ones made by imbeciles on Facebook, which I don't see and don't follow."

"A civil society should shut down Facebook, which is a delinquent reality at the origin of dramatic episodes."

"The civilized people, such as we are, should intervene when faced with these situations. Intervene and beat them up, because they [the university students protesting in the Senate] only understand that they are being beaten. [...] That they have been arrested is not a balance, it is good news [...] but they immediately find someone who frees them and slaps them on the cheek. [...] Everything can be changed, but violence must not be accepted."

"[Dear Emilio, I would like your opinion on my belief. Mentana is doing excellent ratings with its new TG LA7. But is it really new? It seems to me that he is using the Fede method with the difference that he has the newspapers and the left aside, Fede maybe not. Mentana makes a good newspaper at Emilio Fede but we all had references. No one is born learned. Then Mentana is good and by the way he started with me. I didn't hire him but he started with me because when I was director of TG1 I entrusted him with the 6:30 p.m. edition."

"Roberto Saviano... But he is not the one who discovered the Camorra, he is not the only one who has denounced it, there are authoritative directors, there are people like magistrates who have fought it... And they're dead, he's super-protected, rightly always has to be protected, but, how to say... You can't get enough of, I mean, feeling that he's the hero, they've even offered him honorary citizenship. But of what? You don't understand, he wrote books against the Camorra like so many other people did, without making a fuss, without going on the front pages, without collecting signatures, without breaking... Ahem, I wanted to say, excuse me, without disturbing people's thinking, that you got it right. A country like ours is against organized crime. There is no need for Roberto Saviano to be there."

"[On Roberto Saviano] There was a communiqué, an expression of solidarity from the journalists' union... Okay, we agree with it perfectly, but well, it seems to me that... It's better to move on [...] It's not that I'm mad at Saviano, I'm just saying that Saviano proposes a lot, in short, right? That is, there is a film, a book, a book that sells, the rights to the film that also bring home a lot of good money... In short, it's fine... in short, he is escorted; I could tell him better because I've been living as an escort for a longer time, but I'm not going to tell him why I'm escorted."

"[On the demonstrators at the G8 in Genoa in C.E.2001] They are drug addicts, beggars, gangs of delinquents who should be arrested and kept in jail for life. From the television program Tg4, July 20, C.E.2001,"

"If I were to apply, I would take the opportunity to get a little scoop. I wouldn't tell anyone. I would announce it live on my newscast, saying goodbye to viewers before leaving the directorship."

"[On Indro Montanelli] You're a bad old man and a fool. Shame on you!"

"[On Silvio Berlusconi] I used to be critical, but now I'm starting to appreciate it. It is a bulwark for democracy and for information."