Historian Canfora indicted for slandering Meloni

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 16 - Historian and philologist Luciano Canfora was indicted Tuesday for slandering Premier Giorgia Meloni by calling her, among other things, a "neo-Nazi in her soul".
    Canfora, 81, one of Italy's foremost classicists, academics, and leftwing public intellectuals, was sued for slander by the premier for his remarks at a Bari high school debate on the Russia-Ukraine war on April 11, 2022, when Meloni was the only opposition to then premier Mario Draghi's national unity government.
    Canfora described Meloni, 47, who became Italy's first woman premier later that year, as "a neo-Nazi in her soul", a "poor wretch", and "an extremely dangerous beggar".
    The trial will begin in Bari on October 7. (ANSA).