Figure of the Italian intellectual life, this renowned journalist and successful press patron, died at 98 years.
He loved light thinkers, and especially Diderot for his enchanted materialism. By way of postface to an Italian edition, at Sellerio, of the dream of Alembert, Eugenio Scalfari imagined a dialogue between Julie de Lespinasse and the philosopher, on the fragility of human things where the latter recalled: “For you, for me, For each of us, our ephemeral is our eternity. “Figure of the Italian intellectual life, renowned journalist, successful press boss, founder of the weekly Espresso (1955), then the daily La Repubblica (1976 ), Eugenio Scalfari, was a great lover of the language as of French culture. And Le Monde, one of its favorite readings. He died at the age of 98 Thursday July 14, announced the repubblica .
“Il Ddirettore”, as his collaborators called him or even affectionately, would have liked the Repubblica, “this almost son of paper” whose bar he held for twenty years, between 1976 and 1996, either More pugnacious and influence her model from the Parisian rue des Italiens. For more than forty years, the Repubblica has been the opinion in Italy and has created the event by its interviews-shocs or its investigations.
The Journal of Piazza Indipendenza-Belle Address for a media, even if it has since moved-remains a counter-power, an antipover, a more-power. “A Corsaire Journal”, as his director-founder liked to characterize the White Beard of Garibaldi Assagi. Unconditional admirer of the French Revolution, which, each year, celebrated July 14 by inviting friends, intellectuals, industrialists and politicians, this Jacobin of heart would also have loved, in Italy, being able to fully believe in the Republic and the State by right. “Italian corruption stems from the fact that the State is perceived by the population as something outside, with a ruling class barricaded in the defense of its privileges,” he said. more feared journalists
In the columns of his newspaper, he advocated economic rigor and social justice, benevolence vis-à-vis the Communists who have become reformists, dialogue with the Catholic world, and above all respect for public affairs. Even after abandoning the reins of everyday life, he continued to carry these ideas in his long Sunday editorials, “his homilies”, as he called them joking.
Eugenio Scalfari was the most influential, the most respected, the most feared from Italian journalists from the last third of the 20th e century. The most hated also by those he was token. “If I had to note it, I would give a 10 out of 10 to the press patron, an 8 to the journalist, but hardly the average in politics, because he has often been wrong,” quipped a former senator who was one of his loved ones.
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