Nicholas Burgess Farrell
Nicholas Burgess Farrell (born 2 October 1958) is an English journalist and the author of Mussolini: A New Life.
Early life[edit]
Farrell was born in London, on 2 October 1958. He attended The King's School, Canterbury, and studied history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, earning his B.A. on 20 June 1980. He completed his apprenticeship and his National Certificate Examination exam in October 1984.[citation needed]
Career[edit]
He worked as journalist for the Sunday Telegraph from 1987 to 1996, later moving to The Spectator from April 1996 to July 1998. Farrell then moved to Forlì, Italy, married an Italian woman and joined the Italian journalist association, at first working for the local newspaper La voce di Romagna and later for the national publication Libero.[1]
Farrell's most famous article is a 2003 interview with Silvio Berlusconi for The Spectator, where the Italian prime minister made statements which sparked criticism in Italy.[2][3]
Today he writes mainly for Libero, which is a liberal conservative newspaper supportive of centre-right politics.[citation needed]
His 2003 book, Mussolini: A New Life, described Benito Mussolini as an unfairly maligned leader whose “charisma” and Machiavellian adroitness were “phenomenal”; it was acclaimed by British novelist and academic Tim Parks as a "welcome" revisionist biography.[4] It was criticized by Tobias Jones of The Guardian, who summarized it by saying that its "basic thesis is that Mussolini deserves his place in the pantheon of great men and that fascism wasn't so bad after all".[5]
References[edit]
- ^ "Gazzetta n. 227 del 29 settembre 2007 - MINISTERO DELLA GIUSTIZIA".
- ^ "Politica. Berlusconi allo Spectator: "Saddam più feroce di Mussolini, il Duce non uccise nessuno"". Rai News 24. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
- ^ Farrell, Nicholas (30 September 2021). "Is Silvio Berlusconi mad?". UnHerd.
- ^ Thomson, Ian (31 July 2015). "'A Literary Tour of Italy', by Tim Parks". Financial Times.
- ^ Jones, Tobias (18 July 2003). "The high priest of fascism". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
Works[edit]
- "A Chip off the Old Block?", the Independent, 25 June 2003.
- Mussolini: A New Life (2003) ISBN 0297819658 (cloth) ISBN 1842121235 (paper)
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