"The founder of right-wing thinking in Italy was Dante Alighieri: the right has culture, it just needs to affirm it".
This was stated by the Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano interviewed by Pietro Senaldi during the Milanese FdI event, "Ready, candidates to go".
"We find that vision of the human person in Dante - added Sangiuliano - but I also believe his political construction is profoundly right-wing. But I believe that we must not replace the cultural hegemony of the left, the Gramscian one, with a another hegemony, that of the right. We must free culture, which is culture only if it is free, if it is dialectical".