Francesco Giubilei (born 1 January 1992) is an Italian publisher, columnist, and conservative writer. From December 2022 to June 2023, he was a special advisor for the Italian Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano.
Early life and education
Giubilei was born in Cesena, the son of two doctors; his father, a surgeon, is from Gualdo Tadino,[1] while his mother, a pediatrician, was born in Venezuela to a family of Italian immigrants.[2] Giubilei took a bachelor's degree in Modern Literature at Roma Tre University and a master's degree in Culture and History of publishing enterprises at the University of Milan. He also attended summer schools at the London School of Journalism and the Cuny Graduate School in New York.[3] He wrote his first book, Giovinezza. Partitura per mandolino e canto, when he was 13 years old, and published it at the age of 15. In 2007, he won the first prize at the literary contest Titano 2007 with his short story La terza porta.[4]
Career
At the age of 16 in September 2008, Giubilei founded his first publishing house, Historica Edizioni. In 2013, he founded a second publishing house, Giubilei Regnani Editore, with businessman Giorgio Regnani. He has worked as a contributor for several media outlets, including Il Giornale,[5]Il Messaggero,[6]Linkiesta,[7]La Voce di Romagna,[8] and The American Conservative.[9] He has also founded his own magazines and online newspapers, such as Scrivendo volo, Cultora, Atlantico Quotidiano, and Nazione Futura; the last one is also the name of a political movement (Future Nation) he founded in 2017.[10]
From 2013 to 2016, Giubilei and Historica were the founder and leading organizer of the Fiera del libro della Romagna, a Cesena-based independent book festival.[11] In 2015, he started teaching at Corso di Editoria in Rome e Herzog Agenzia Letteraria in Milan. Since 2017, Giubilei is adjunct professor at the Università degli Studi Giustino Fortunato in Benevento.[12] Since January 2018, he is also the president of the Tatarella Foundation, which was founded in memory to Italian politician Giuseppe Tatarella.[13] He was a member of Italy's scientific committee on the Conference on the Future of Europe.[14]
In 2019, Giubilei was listed by Forbes among the top 100 most influential under-30 people in Italy.[15] In 2020, he was listed among the five best young journalists in Italy.[16] His books have been translated into English, Spanish, Serbian, and Hungarian.[17] In December 2022, Giubilei was made a special advisor for the Italian Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano,[18] a position he held until his resignation in June 2023.[19]
Giovinezza. Partitura per mandolino e canto, Il Ponte Vecchio, 2007.
Bastola. La signora del fuoco, ARPAnet, 2008.
Chi è Charlie?, Historica Edizioni, 2011.
I giovani e la letteratura, Historica Edizioni, 2013.
Leo Longanesi. Il borghese conservatore, Odoya, 2015.
Perché le élite ci salveranno dal populismo. All'Italia non serve l'antipolitica ma la buona politica, Società Europea di Edizioni, 2015.
Storia del pensiero conservatore. Dalla Rivoluzione francese ai giorni nostri, Giubilei Regnani, 2016. Translated in English by Regnery Publishing as The History of European Conservative Thought.
I riferimenti culturali della Lega di Salvini, Historica Edizioni, 2018.
Storia della cultura di destra. Dal dopoguerra al governo giallo-verde, Giubilei Regnani, 2018.
Europa sovranista. Da Salvini alla Meloni, da Orbán alla Le Pen, Giubilei Regnani, 2019.
Conservare la natura. Perché l'ambiente è un tema caro alla destra e ai conservatori, Giubilei Regnani, 2020.
Giorgia Meloni. La rivoluzione dei conservatori, Giubilei Regnani, 2020.
Strapaese. L'Italia dei paesi e delle chiese di campagna. Da Maccari a Longanesi, da Papini a Soffici, Odoya, 2021.
Sovranità energetica. Dagli errori della transizione ecologica alla guerra in Ucraina, Giubilei Regnani, 2022.