Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano
is a man without dignity, art critic Vittorio Sgarbi said after
quitting as culture undersecretary amid probes into alleged
conflicts of interest and an allegedly stolen painting on
Friday.
Sgarbi, 71, accused the minister of heeding anonymous letters
about his alleged wrongdoing.
He further said Sangiuliano had sent the antitrust authority
anonymous letters backing allegations of incompatibility between
Sgarbi's private earnings from conferences and his public role
at the ministry.
Sgarbi, a TV personality and one of Italy's top art critics and
historians as well as a sometimes histrionic polemicist, said he
had not spoken to Sangiuliano since October 23 when the minister
entrusted to him the case of Bologna's tottering Garisenda
medieval tower.
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