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Antonio Di Pietro, Gianni Barbacetto

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Antonio Di Pietro is a former Milan prosecutor prominently associated with the Mani Pulite (Clean Hands) investigations; Gianni Barbacetto is an investigative journalist who conducted the interviews compiled in Il Guastafeste (2009).

From the review: Di Pietro was part of the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office team in the Mani Pulite investigations; Di Pietro led the movement 'Italy of Values' for about ten years; Gianni Barbacetto collaborates regularly with Micromega and Repubblica.

Il Guastafeste is an interview book (2009) in which Gianni Barbacetto retraces Antonio Di Pietro's path from the Mani Pulite investigations to his political role. The reviewer finds the book detailed and not just self-promotion, highlights an excerpt titled "Me and Silvio", and judges it useful especially for detractors seeking clarity. The review rates the book 3/5 and notes passages of piercing, uneasy tone.

For:Readers interested in Italian politics, judicial history, investigative journalism, and the Mani Pulite (Clean Hands) investigations.

 The book, written at the end of last year, fortunately does not configure itself as a mere operation of sterile self-promotion (between the lines, undeniably, there is also this) about his immaculate and enlightened "work" shaped by Our protagonist over the past twenty years, but rather it is the particularly detailed account of multiple interviews conducted with the same former magistrate by journalist Gianni Barbacetto (who collaborates regularly with Micromega and Repubblica) which chronologically retrace backward the steps (descent or ascent, you choose) towards today's Di Pietro's thinking;

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