Francesco Giubilei | |
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Born | Cesena, Italy | 1 January 1992
Nationality | Italian |
Occupation(s) | Publisher, columnist, writer |
Years active | 2008–present |
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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.
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]
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]
Giubilei resides in Rome and speaks fluent Spanish. In 2019, he established a pro-Juan Guaidó committee.[20] In 2022, he said that an alliance between Russia and China would be dangerous for Europe.[21] As a conservative,[22] Giubilei is close to Brothers of Italy, the political party of the incumbent Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni, being described as her ambassador in the United States.[23] Giubilei hopes to host the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference in Rome, and wishes that both Trumpists and non-Trumpists in the Republican Party take part, with the goal of closer relations between American conservatives and European conservatives.[24][25] Although Giubilei does not consider Donald Trump to be a true conservative and criticized what he sees as his excesses, such as the January 6 United States Capitol attack, he supports Trump over Joe Biden in the 2024 United States presidential election.[23] He praised Trump on foreign policy, and described him as a model.[26]