From 2011 to 2022, Italy had seven governments led by six premiers, four of whom were not even elected in Parliament: Mario Monti, Enrico Letta, Matteo Renzi, Paolo Gentiloni, Giuseppe Conte, and Mario Draghi. Not even the man who was able to cope with Europe's economic default survived the collapse of the Italian political system. The Tenants of Palazzo Chigi followed one another with impressive rapidity, forming weak governments marked by resounding rises and equally rapid defeats. Sustained also by the Italians' singular penchant for the powerful and their ability to create a Napoleon out of thin air.
Lucia Annunziata chronicles the most dramatic hours of recent history, from the economic crisis to the Covid to the war to Draghi's failed election to the Quirinal. Government after government, these pages address the end of trust in the parties, the emptying of Parliament and the pacts by which the Prime Minister is chosen, the itinerary of the various governments and the reasons for their rapid attrition. "The crisis of the Italian political system was certainly not born with Monti. The distrust in politics was already all there, just barely under the skin. The choice of a technician, of a man outside politics, can be read today as the first surrender of the ruling class to this distrust."
With unpublished documents and interviews, Lucia Annunziata plumbed the last decade of Italian politics as no one had ever done before. Because today going to the bottom of a diagnosis of political management in our country means measuring oneself against the populist drift of republican history.

Seven governments with six presidents. For ten years, men not directly indicated by political elections entered Palazzo Chigi: Tenants, temporary inhabitants of power.
An attempt to stem the populist drift that ended up handing the country over to the right.

A history of power in Italy, with unpublished documents and interviews.