Pipes and sticks, tablets by Benedetto Croce. Ten hours of right-wing culture

The story of the most amusing event of the right organized by Francesco Giubilei, adviser to Minister Sangiuliano. Apennines to repopulate, boyars to chase, Italian to preside over and Korean philosophers

Commissioner, it’s all true. We were in Rome, at the Quirinale Hotel, and for an entire day we sniffed “states general of national culture”, the event organized by the right-wing government. Ten hours. In practice, ten pure grams of “ostracized culture”. And then pills too. It was almost an overdose. There were unsuspected. We ingested cyclozine with the Minister of Culture, Sangiuliano; codeine with the philosopher Zecchi; phenobarbital with the vice president of the Chamber, Rampelli; nalbulfina with the president of Maxxi, Giuli; petedina with the director Edoardo Sylos Labini and also pentazocin, with the deputy director of La Verità, Francesco Borgonovo. Camillo Langone, who was also present, broke away and went to pray.