{{Short description|Italian former journalist (born 1943)}} {{Use Oxford spelling|date=February 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}} {{Expand Italian|topic=bio|Vittorio Feltri|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox office holder | name = Vittorio Feltri | image = Vittorio Feltri.jpg | caption = Feltri in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 2008 | birth_date = {{birth-date and age|25 June 1943}} | birth_place = Bergamo, Kingdom of Italy | office = Member of the Regional Council of Lombardy | term_start = 14 February 2023 | term_end = | office2 = Member of the City Council of Milan | term_start2 = 5 October 2021 | term_end2 = 22 June 2022 | party = PSI (until 1994)<br>''None'' (1994–2005; 2009–2021)<br>RL (2005–2009)<br>FdI (since 2021) | height = {{convert|1.80|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | spouse = {{ubl|{{marriage|Maria Luisa||1968|end=died}}|{{marriage|Enoe Bonfanti|1969}}}} | children = 4, including {{ill|Mattia Feltri|it|Mattia Feltri}} | alma_mater = University of Bergamo }}
'''Vittorio Feltri''' (born 25 June 1943) is an Italian journalist and politician. Among the many Italian newspapers he directed, until 2020 he was the editor-in-chief of daily ''Libero.'' From 2023, he has been editorial director of Il Giornale. As a member of the Brothers of Italy party, he was a member of the City Council of Milan from 2021 to 2022, and is a member of the Regional Council of Lombardy. He is the author of several books.<ref name="Treccani">{{cite web|url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/vittorio-feltri/|title=Feltri, Vittorio|website=Treccani|language=it|date=|access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref>
== Early life and education == Feltri was born in Bergamo, Italy, one of three children of Adele and Angelo Feltri (1906–1949).<ref name="Lorenzetto 2010">{{cite news|last=Lorenzetto|first=Stefano|date=20 June 2010|url=https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/appena-assunto-mettevo-i-nomi-ai-trovatelli-e-tagliavo-rette-361394.html|title='Appena assunto mettevo i nomi ai trovatelli e tagliavo le rette ai matti'|work=Il Giornale|language=it|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> His father died at the age of 43 of Addison's disease.<ref name="Lorenzetto 2010"/> At 14 and a half, he began working as a bellboy in a crystal shop, then in a packaging shop, then took a window dressing course. He subsequently entered higher education and gained a political science degree at the University of Bergamo.<ref>{{cite news|last=Truzzi|first=Silvia|date=23 August 2015|url=https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2015/08/23/vittorio-feltri-per-me-i-giornali-sono-come-le-donne-dopo-un-po-mi-stufo/1976153/|title=Vittorio Feltri: 'Per me i giornali sono come le donne, dopo un po' mi stufo'|work=Il Fatto Quotidiano|language=it|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref>
== Career == Feltri began his career as journalist in 1962, writing film reviews for the local newspaper ''L'Eco di Bergamo''. In 1977, he moved to the ''Corriere della Sera''. In the 1980s and 1990s, he was also director of ''Bergamo oggi'', ''L'Europeo'', and ''L'Indipendente''.<ref name="Treccani"/>
In 1993, Feltri refused the offer of Silvio Berlusconi to get involved in Fininvest. The next year, he agreed to become editor of ''il Giornale'', which was owned by Berlusconi, after its founder Indro Montanelli left. He was its editor until 1997.<ref name="Treccani"/> In the same period, he contributed to other newspapers and magazines, including ''Panorama'', ''Il Foglio'', and ''Il Messaggero''. In 2000, he founded the right-wing newspaper ''Libero'', which he ran until 2009.<ref name="Treccani"/> In August 2009, he once again became the editor of Berlusconi's ''il Giornale''. In 2016, he returned to ''Libero'', which he directed until 2020.<ref name="Treccani"/>
In June 2020, Feltri resigned from the {{ill|Italian Order of Journalists|it|Ordine dei giornalisti}}, of which he had been a member since 22 September 1969. The choice came after a number of controversial statements related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Southern Italy, and disciplinary proceedings.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.napolitoday.it/attualita/vittorio-feltri-dimissioni-giornalista.html|title=Feltri si dimette da giornalista, Odg Campania: 'Vittoria di Carlo Verna'|website=NapoliToday|language=it|date=26 June 2020|access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref> The announcement was made by ''Il Giornale''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.askanews.it/cronaca/2020/06/26/vittorio-feltri-si-dimette-da-giornalista-top10_20200626_022114/|title='Vittorio Feltri si dimette da giornalista'|work=Askanews|language=it|date=26 June 2020|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Girardi|first=Annalisa|date=26 June 2020|url=https://www.fanpage.it/politica/vittorio-feltri-si-dimette-da-giornalista-lo-annuncia-il-giornale/|title='Vittorio Feltri si dimette da giornalista': lo annuncia il Giornale|website=Fanpage.it|language=it|access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref>
== Politics == Politically, Feltri declares himself an antifascist,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-03-09 |title=Vittorio Feltri: "Per me i giornali sono come le donne, dopo un po' mi stufo" - Il Fatto Quotidiano |url=https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2015/08/23/vittorio-feltri-per-me-i-giornali-sono-come-le-donne-dopo-un-po-mi-stufo/1976153/ |access-date=2025-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309073254/https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2015/08/23/vittorio-feltri-per-me-i-giornali-sono-come-le-donne-dopo-un-po-mi-stufo/1976153/ |archive-date=9 March 2024 }}</ref> anti-communist, Eurosceptic, and liberal conservative, with conservative and market liberal views of the economy, and liberal views on issues such as euthanasia,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.blitzquotidiano.it/politica-italiana/vittorio-feltri-la-zanzara-si-nozze-gay-pure-adozioni-audio-1579170/|title=Vittorio Feltri alla Zanzara: 'Sì a nozze gay e pure adozioni' (audio)|work=Blitz Quotidiano|language=it|date=31 May 2013|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/opinioni/11739336/Vittorio-Feltri--Perche-dico-si.html|url-status=dead|title=Vittorio Feltri alla Zanzara: 'Sì a nozze gay e pure adozioni' (audio)|work=Libero|language=it|date=5 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150712103226/http://www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/opinioni/11739336/Vittorio-Feltri--Perche-dico-si.html|archive-date=12 July 2015|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> prison reform,<ref>{{cite news|last=Feltri|first=Vittorio|date=25 June 2011|url=https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/cari-onorevoli-sullamnistia-io-sto-pannella.html|title=Cari onorevoli, sull'amnistia io sto con Pannella|work=Il Giornale|language=it|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> prostitution, and recreational drug use.<ref>{{cite news|last=Legnani|first=Matteo|date=12 January 2014|url=https://www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/personaggi/1382968/Marijuana--anche-Feltri-per-la-legalizzazione.html|title=Marijuana, anche Feltri per la legalizzazione|work=Libero|language=it|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> He also shares Oriana Fallaci's criticism of Islam; his newspaper's chosen headline, ''Bastardi islamici'' ({{langx|en|Islamic Bastards}}), after the November 2015 Paris attacks caused controversy.<ref>{{cite web|last=Gippetto|first=Daniele|date=5 February 2019|url=https://www.parmateneo.it/?p=47880|title=Perchè non bisogna più indignarsi per i titoli di Libero|website=ParmAteneo|language=it|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref>
An advocate of a constitutional monarchy under the House of Savoy,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1993/10/12/repubblica-monarchia-fini-feltri-si-voti-di.html|title=Repubblica o monacrhia? Fini e Feltri: si voti di nuovo|work=La Repubblica|language=it|date=12 October 1993|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> having taken part at the presentation of the 2001 manifesto of the Italian Monarchist Movement,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://iosonolaico.ilcannocchiale.it/?id_blogdoc=610166|url-status=dead|title=Feltri: non solo berlusconiano, ma anche monarchico|website=Il cannocchiale|language=it|date=8 August 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222122055/http://iosonolaico.ilcannocchiale.it/?id_blogdoc=610166|archive-date=22 December 2015|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> he favours a presidential system over the ''status quo'' of a parliamentary republic.<ref>{{cite news|last=Feltri|first=Vittorio|date=31 March 2013|url=https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/interni/italia-presidenzialista-sua-insaputa-901706.html|title=Italia presidenzialista (ma a sua insaputa)|work=Il Giornale|language=it|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> He is a supporter of Silvio Berlusconi and Italy's centre-right coalition,<ref>{{cite news|last=Tempestini|first=Andrea|date=4 March 2018|url=https://www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/politica/13315031/vittorio-feltri-4-marzo-perche-al-voto-scelgo-centrodestra.html|title=Vittorio Feltri: 'Ecco perché scelgo il centrodestra. Italiani, capite chi vi prende per il culo'|work=Libero|language=it|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> which he saw as the lesser of two evils,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.it/2013/01/30/vittorio-feltri-scatenato-silvio-berlusconi-ha-candidato-di-nuovo-le-mignotte-le-liste-del-pdl-mi-vanno-venire-il-vomito_n_2581717.html|title=Vittorio Feltri scatenato: 'Silvio Berlusconi ha candidato di nuovo le mignotte: le liste del Pdl mi vanno venire il vomito'. E conferma la voglia di votare per Beppe Grillo|website=L'Huffington Post|language=it|date=30 January 2013|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> preferring the more right-wing Lega Nord and Brothers of Italy (FdI), who nominated him for President of Italy in 2015.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.agi.it/archivio/elezioni/2015/01/28/news/meloni_e_salvini_candidano_vittorio_feltri-212933/|title=Meloni e Salvini candidano Vittorio Feltri|work=AGI|language=it|date=28 January 2015|access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.it/2015/01/28/quirinale-vittorio-feltri-candidato-lega-fdi_n_6561158.html|title=Salvini e Meloni candidano Vittorio Feltri al Quirinale|website=HuffPost Italia|language=it|date=28 January 2015|access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Robuschi|first=Andrea|date=29 January 2015|url=http://www.reporternuovo.it/2015/01/29/quirinale-vittorio-feltri-lanciato-da-tandem-salvini-meloni/|url-status=dead|title=Quirinale, Vittorio Feltri lanciato da tandem Salvini-Meloni|website=Reporter Nuovo|language=it|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150819165935/http://www.reporternuovo.it/2015/01/29/quirinale-vittorio-feltri-lanciato-da-tandem-salvini-meloni/|archive-date=19 August 2015|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> In the 2015 Italian presidential election held on 29–31 January, Feltri received 49, 51, and 56 votes in the first three rounds, behind only Ferdinando Imposimato. In the fourth and final round, Feltri finished third with 49 votes.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://st.ilsole24ore.com/art/notizie/2015-01-30/a-feltri-49-voti-in-piu-lega-fdi-063701.shtml|title=A Feltri 49 voti, uno in più di Lega-Fdi|work=Il Sole 24 Ore|language=it|date=30 January 2015|access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ansa.it/english/news/politics/2015/01/31/mattarella-elected-president-of-italy_a36e852a-e48f-4d0c-a6dc-a065ffcb9495.html|title=Mattarella elected president of Italy – English|work=ANSA|date=31 January 2015|access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref>
In 2019, 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.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pezzi|first=Maria|date=31 May 2019|url=https://www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/politica/13466705/elezioni-europee-vittorio-feltri-risultato-bergamo-m5s-luigi-di-maio.html|title=Vittorio Feltri, il risultato delle Europee a Bergamo? Il commento con cui spazza via il M5s|work=Libero|language=it|access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> He was later critical of Salvini.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://notizie.virgilio.it/milano-feltri-eletto-consigliere-1502963|title=Milano, Vittorio Feltri eletto consigliere: 'Godo per flop della Lega'|work=Virgilio|language=it|date=5 October 2021|access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> In 2021, he joined the FdI.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/articoli/Vittorio-Feltri-fratelli-d-Italia-Giorgia-Meloni-sara-capolista-a-Milano-6cea204d-13fc-4531-b480-32ba5c606dfa.html|title=Vittorio Feltri si iscrive a Fratelli d'Italia. Giorgia Meloni: 'Sarà capolista a Milano'|work=RaiNews|language=it|date=5 July 2021|access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref> He became the top candidate of the party for the City Council of Milan elections;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.today.it/politica/vittorio-feltri-fratelli-italia-candidato-milano.html|title=Vittorio Feltri candidato con Fratelli d'Italia: 'Si è iscritto al partito, sarà capolista'|website=Today.it|language=it|date=6 July 2021|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Marzocchi|first=Alberto|date=21 October 2021|url=https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2021/10/21/primo-giorno-di-feltri-in-consiglio-tra-battute-e-parolacce-emozione-solo-con-le-belle-donne-io-al-quirinale-non-si-guadagna-un-cazzo/6363569/|title=Primo giorno di Feltri in Consiglio tra battute e parolacce: 'Emozione? Solo con le belle donne. Io al Quirinale? Non si guadagna un cazzo'|work=Il Fatto Quotidiano|language=it|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> elected with 2,268 preferences,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/milano-maran-pd-mister-preferenze-9166-voti-oltre-2200-preferenze-feltri-AEIG2fn|title=Da Feltri a Pippo Franco, successi e flop delle preferenze|work=Il Sole 24 Ore|language=it|date=5 October 2021|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> he left the office seven months later due to health issues.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2022/03/19/vittorio-feltri-dopo-la-lettera-a-fedez-mi-hanno-trovato-un-nodulo-al-seno-ma-non-mi-frega-di-raccontare-i-cazzi-miei-lho-fatto-per-lui-si-e-capito-che-non-ha-un-raffreddore/6531127/|title=Vittorio Feltri dopo la lettera a Fedez: 'Mi hanno trovato un nodulo al seno ma non mi frega di raccontare i cazzi miei. L'ho fatto per lui, si è capito che non ha un raffreddore'|work=Il Fatto Quotidiano|language=it|date=19 March 2022|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Ruggiero|first=Giovanni|date=2 May 2022|url=https://www.open.online/2022/05/02/vittorio-feltri-dimissioni-consiglio-comunale-milano-cancro/|title=Milano, Vittorio Feltri si dimette da consigliere comunale di Fratelli d'Italia: 'Lascio per motivi di salute'|website=Open|language=it|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/politica/2022/06/22/vittorio-feltri-si-dimette-dal-consiglio-comunale-di-milano_382075c7-2723-48b6-ac53-22019be5b514.html|title=Vittorio Feltri si dimette dal Consiglio comunale di Milano|work=ANSA|language=it|date=22 June 2022|access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref> He was critical of anti-vaxxers. For the 2021 Milan municipal election, he said: "I didn't vote myself, they gave me two sheets and I don't understand a damn thing about what was written. I think I voted Sala. I didn't write the name Feltri."<ref>{{cite news|last=Lio|first=Pierpaolo|date=13 October 2021|url=https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/politica/21_ottobre_13/elezioni-milano-vittorio-feltri-fdi-credo-aver-votato-sala-mio-nome-non-l-ho-scritto-scheda-054c279c-2c12-11ec-98f9-fbd4bdd13a87.shtml|title=Vittorio Feltri (FdI): 'Credo di aver votato Sala, il mio nome non l'ho scritto sulla scheda'|work=Corriere della Sera|language=it|access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> In the 2023 Lombard regional election, as the head of the FdI's party list in support of the incumbent president Attilio Fontana,<ref>{{cite news|last=De Vito|first=Luca|date=14 February 2023|url=https://milano.repubblica.it/cronaca/2023/02/14/news/regionali_lombardia_consiglieri_eletti_preferenze_consiglio-387961674/|title=Elezioni Lombardia, dentro Feltri e Del Bono, fuori Gallera e Pregliasco: chi ce l'ha fatta e chi no nella corsa al Consiglio regionale|work=La Repubblica|language=it|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Rossi|first=Giampiero|date=15 February 2023|title=Le pattuglie dei consiglieri|work=Corriere della Sera|language=it|page=11}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2023/02/15/feltri-neo-eletto-in-lombardia-prendero-13mila-euro-per-me-non-sono-un-cao-fdi-la-pensa-diversamente-da-me-sul-41-bis-me-ne-frego/7066140/|title=Feltri, neo-eletto in Lombardia: 'Prenderò 13mila euro? Per me non sono un ca**o. FdI la pensa diversamente da me sul 41 bis? Me ne frego'|work=Il Fatto Quotidiano|language=it|date=15 February 2023|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> he was elected with 6,076 preferences.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ansa.it/lombardia/notizie/2023/02/14/lombardia-eletti-feltri-e-luca-paladini-escluso-pregliasco_cde8f9a1-e971-4b7a-9c4b-e9ec235de4df.html|title=Lombardia: eletti Feltri e Luca Paladini, escluso Pregliasco|work=ANSA|language=it|date=14 February 2023|access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nordmilano24.it/2023/02/14/regionali-2023-i-preferiti-della-lombardia/|title=Regionali 2023, i preferiti della Lombardia|website=NordMilano24|language=it|date=24 February 2023|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> As the most senior member of the Regional Council of Lombardy,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ilgiorno.it/elezioni-lombardia/elezioni-lombardia-vecchio-giovane-eletti-1.8526092|title=Elezioni: Vittorio Feltri più anziano, quasi 80 anni. Il più giovane Michele Schiavi, 23|work=Il Giorno|language=it|date=14 February 2023|access-date=6 March 2023}}</ref> he is to chair the first session, which he described as a boredom.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Montanari|first1=Andrea|last2=Romano|first2=Miriam|date=15 February 2023|url=https://milano.repubblica.it/cronaca/2023/02/15/news/lombardia_regionali_2023_eletti_esclusi-388055200/|title=Lombardia, nuovi ingressi al Pirellone: il più anziano è Feltri che non vuole presiedere la prima seduta: 'Che rottura'|work=La Repubblica|language=it|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref>
== Personal life == Feltri married Maria Luisa at a young age, with whom he had twin daughters Saba Laura and Laura Adele.<ref name="Lorenzetto 2010"/> Widowed in 1967 at the age of 24, with his wife dead due to complications of childbirth, he was remarried in 1968 to Enoe Bonfanti, with whom he had two children: Mattia, who is also a journalist, and Fiorenza.<ref name="Lorenzetto 2010"/><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.primaonline.it/2012/02/24/101251/se-dice-foglio-gli-brillano-gli-occhi-intervista-a-mattia-feltri-giornalista-della-stampa-prima-n-423-dicembre-2011/|title=Se dice 'Foglio' gli brillano gli occhi – Intervista a Mattia Feltri, giornalista della Stampa (Prima n. 423, dicembre 2011)|magazine=Prima|language=it|issue=423, December 2011|date=24 February 2012|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> Feltri is an atheist.<ref>{{cite news|last=Milosa|first=Davide|date=23 September 2010|url=http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2010/09/23/caso-boffo-vittorio-feltri-verso-la-sospensione-dallordine-dei-giornalisti/63826/|title=Caso Boffo, Vittorio Feltri verso la sospensione dall'ordine dei giornalisti|work=Il Fatto Quotidiano|language=it|access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref> He is a supporter of Atalanta football club.<ref>{{cite news|last=Gentile|first=Marco|date=11 March 2020|url=https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/sport/vittorio-feltri-latalanta-mi-ha-fatto-piangere-gioia-1839436.html|title=Vittorio Feltri: 'L'Atalanta mi ha fatto piangere di gioia'|work=Il Giornale|language=it|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> Feltri owns a bust of Benito Mussolini. About this, he clarified: "For me, born in 1943, anti-fascism has never been in question. The bust was sent by an innkeeper, nice but very fascist. I put it there so as not to see it."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/sfoglio/11821485/Vittorio-Feltri-si-racconta-dai-primi.html|url-status=dead|title=Vittorio Feltri si racconta dai primi lavori alle direzioni dei giornali|work=Libero|language=it|date=22 August 2015|access-date=5 March 2023|archive-date=14 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114044603/https://www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/sfoglio/11821485/Vittorio-Feltri-si-racconta-dai-primi.html}}</ref>
On 13 May 2010, Feltri spoke on Animal Awareness Day, expressing support for animal rights positions, in particular against sport fishing and in favour of vegetarianism.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lacoscienzadeglianimali.it/index.php/gli-interventi/42-la-coscienza-degli-animali-milano-13-maggio-2010-intervento-di-vittorio-feltri|url-status=dead|title=Milano, 13 maggio 2010 – Intervento di Vittorio Feltri|website=La Coscienza degli Animali|language=it|date=13 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613033028/http://www.lacoscienzadeglianimali.it/index.php/gli-interventi/42-la-coscienza-degli-animali-milano-13-maggio-2010-intervento-di-vittorio-feltri|archive-date=13 June 2010|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> A cat lover, he said he was not completely vegetarian.<ref>{{cite news|last=Giusto|first=Eliana|date=27 December 2015|url=http://www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/sfoglio/11861992/vittorio-feltri-intervista-gatti-.html|title=Vittorio Feltri, la spiazzante dichiarazione d'amore per la Boldrini|work=Libero|language=it|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> Despite the conviction for a homophobic insult in 2011, he joined Arcigay in 2014, stating from the pages of ''Il Giornale'': "We are for freedom, without discrimination, convinced that it is necessary to overcome the prejudices that generate misunderstandings, banalities, [and] boring and stupid insults".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.repubblica.it/politica/2014/06/29/news/gay_berlusconi_per_battaglia_diritti_civili_impegno_di_tutti-90305603/|title=Berlusconi in campo per i diritti gay: 'Serve impegno di tutti'|work=La Repubblica|language=it|date=29 June 2014|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref>
== Controversy and legal issues == In March 2010, Feltri was suspended six months from the professional register for the Boffo case, dating back to August 2009,<ref>{{cite news|last=La Rocca|first=Orazio|date=31 August 2009|url=https://www.repubblica.it/2009/08/sezioni/politica/berlusconi-divorzio-23/boffo-contrattacco/boffo-contrattacco.html|title=Boffo va al contrattacco 'Contro di me una patacca'|work=La Repubblica|language=it|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> and for the articles signed by {{ill|Renato Farina|it|Renato Farina}}, one of the Italian journalists who wrote for the newspaper directed by Feltri, published after his disbarment from the register.<ref>{{cite news|last=Montanari|first=Andrea|date=26 March 2010|url=https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2010/03/26/news/caso_boffo_feltri_sospeso_dall_ordine_della_lombardia-2908307/|title=Caso Boffo, Feltri sospeso Sei mesi fuori dall'Ordine|work=La Repubblica|language=it|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2010/03/26/news/caso_boffo-feltri_le_ragioni_della_sospensione_ha_intaccato_la_fiducia_tra_stampa_e_lettori-2919744/|title=Caso Boffo-Feltri: le ragioni della sospensione 'Ha intaccato la fiducia tra stampa e lettori'|work=La Repubblica|language=it|date=26 March 2010|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.corriere.it/cronache/10_marzo_26/feltri-condanna-ordine_e6e7e06c-38d9-11df-97c8-00144f02aabe.shtml|title=Feltri sospeso per il caso Boffo e per gli articoli dell'agente 'Betulla'|work=Corriere della Sera|language=it|date=26 March 2010|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> Feltri reacted to the news by stating: "I am sorry that I am not a pedophile priest or at least a homosexual semi-priest or a left-wing conductor, but that I am simply a journalist who cannot therefore enjoy the protection of the bishops, nor become a martyr of information".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.corriere.it/cronache/10_marzo_27/feltri-avvenire-boffo-tarquinio_119cbe6e-398d-11df-862c-00144f02aabe.shtml|title=Avvenire attacca Feltri: 'Affermazioni di gravità intollerabile contro la Chiesa'|work=Corriere della Sera|language=it|date=27 March 2010|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref> In Italian political journalistic language, the Boffo method means the activity of denigration in the press based on specially constructed false documents. 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.italiachiamaitalia.net/news/124/ARTICLE/20143/2010-02-13.html|url-status=dead|title=Vittorio Feltri: 'Il PdL? Un partito sgangherato'|website=Italia chiama Italia|language=it|date=13 February 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100216123613/http://www.italiachiamaitalia.net/news/124/ARTICLE/20143/2010-02-13.html|archive-date=16 February 2010|access-date=5 March 2023}}</ref>
In December 2011, the Court of Milan sentenced Feltri to compensate Gianpaolo Silvestri, the former Federation of the Greens senator, among the founders of Arcigay, with €50,000 for a homophobic insult. He had used ''ad hominem'', a strategy of rhetoric also 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.<ref>{{cite web|last=Mele|first=Massimo|date=21 December 2012|url=https://www.mosinforma.org/feltri-condannato-per-frasi-omofobe-contro-silvestri/|title=Feltri condannato per frasi omofobe contro Silvestri|website=MOSinforma|language=it|access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gay.it/vittorio-feltri-e-omofobo-lo-ha-stabilito-il-tribunale|title=Vittorio Feltri è omofobo: lo ha stabilito il Tribunale|website=Gay.it|language=it|date=12 December 2012|access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref> In 2017, Farina said that, according to him, Asia Argento simply chose to prostitute herself in order to be able to make a career. According to {{ill|Alessandro Sallusti|it|Alessandro Sallusti}}, another Italian journalist, there was nothing wrong with this; according to him, it was unfair to sue after twenty years, and having gained fame.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2017/10/14/caso-weinstein-il-fidanzato-di-asia-argento-la-difende-e-a-libero-dice-vergogna-ditalia-siete-dei-maiali/3914062/|title=Caso Weinstein, il fidanzato di Asia Argento la difende. E a Libero dice: 'Vergogna d'Italia, siete dei maiali'|work=Il Fatto Quotidiano|language=it|date=14 October 2017|access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref>
In 2019, Feltri expressed antisemitic views towards journalist David Parenzo and declared that Jews have bored him with the Holocaust.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2019/02/15/vittorio-feltri-gli-ebrei-sono-decenni-che-rompono-i-coglioni-con-la-shoah/4975825/|title=Vittorio Feltri: 'Gli ebrei? Sono decenni che rompono i coglioni con la Shoah'|work=Il Fatto Quotidiano|language=it|date=15 February 2019|access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref> During a television interview in February 2021, he was asked by the journalist {{ill|Barbara Palombelli|it|Barbara Palombelli}}: "Which relevant people would you like in the new government?". He replied to her "Hitler", provoking controversy both on social media and in the press.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.today.it/media/tv/feltri-hitler-palombelli-stasera-italia.html|title='Chi vorrebbe al governo?', Feltri risponde: 'Hitler'. Gelo a 'Stasera Italia'|website=Today.it|language=it|date=6 February 2021|access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref> During a television show in April 2020, Feltri considered Southern Italians as "inferior people". His words caused controversy around Italy.<ref>{{cite news|last=Vecchio|first=Concetto|date=22 April 2020|url=https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2020/04/22/news/feltri-254716587/|title=Coronavirus, Vittorio Feltri contro i meridionali: 'Inferiori'. L'Ordine valuta il danno di immagine|work=La Repubblica|language=it|access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref> In response, he said that he meant to say they were inferior only and exclusively from an economic point of view, in the sense that the production of material (not spiritual) wealth, according to him, was superior in Lombardy rather than in Campania.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ilmattino.it/napoli/politica/meridionali_inferiori_feltri_parlavo_portafogli_non_cervelli-5190122.html |title=Meridionali inferiori, Feltri: 'Sud offeso? Parlavo del portafogli, mica dei cervelli'|work=Il Mattino |language=it|date=24 April 2020|access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Filograsso|first=Marcello|date=26 April 2020|url=https://www.tvblog.it/post/non-e-larena-vittorio-feltri-meridionali-inferiori-libero-sud|title=Non è L'Arena, Vittorio Feltri sui 'meridionali inferiori' e Libero non venduto al Sud|website=TvBlo|language=it|access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref> He said that he was deeply in love with the city of Naples, its dialect, songs, and culture.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ilfattonisseno.it/2020/04/vittorio-feltri-non-sono-razzista-detto-verita-sul-sud-pronto-ad-andare-in-tribunale/|title=Vittorio Feltri: 'Non sono razzista, detto verità sul Sud. Pronto ad andare in tribunale'|work=Il Fatto Nisseno|language=it|date=22 April 2020|access-date=25 February 2023}}</ref>
In December 2024, he declared in an interview to Belve that he met Pope Francis and that they discussed common ideas, such as that there is too much homosexuality (using the pejorative word ''frociaggine'') in the Catholic Church.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.affaritaliani.it/mediatech/video-vittorio-feltri-papa-francesco-mi-ha-parlato-di-frociaggine-949703.html | title=Vittorio Feltri: "Papa Francesco mi ha ribadito che non sopporta la frociaggine". Fagnani senza parole. VIDEO | date=18 December 2024 }}</ref>
== Works == Feltri is the author of several books, including ''Buoni e cattivi. Le pagelle con il voto ai personaggi conosciuti in 50 anni di giornalismo'' (with {{ill|Stefano Lorenzetto|it|Stefano Lorenzetto}}, 2015), ''Il Quarto Reich. Come la Germania ha sottomesso l'Europa'' (with Gennaro Sangiuliano, 2014), ''Non abbiamo abbastanza paura. Noi e l'islam'' (2015); ''Il vero cafone'' (with {{ill|Massimiliano Parente|it|Massimiliano Parente}}, 2016), ''Chiamiamoli ladri. L'esercito dei corrotti'' (2017), ''Il borghese. La mia vita e i miei incontri da cronista spettinato'' (2018), ''L'irriverente'' (2019), ''Ritratti di campioni. Cronache di un giornalista tifoso'' (2020), and ''Come era bello l'inizio della fine. I grandi incontri della mia vita'' (2022).<ref name="Treccani"/>
== References == {{reflist}}
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