Spokesperson for the Minister of Health: for Nicola it is the turning point of a career. Of course, it thinks, it is not the most central role in a government, it does not often end up in the spotlight, but you can do a good job. It is September 2019.
Four months later, the young minister and his team – and the rest of Italy – find themselves in the eye of a planetary cyclone: one pandemia, A health emergency that is also political and, of course, media emergency. The journalist Nicola Del Duce tells this unique experience in the book ‘In the Bianco Palace’, released in March for Solferino.
Not only a political and generational novel, but the dramatic novel of a country’s formation. It is the story of a war against a completely unknown enemy, That kills hundreds and then thousands of people a day: soon it becomes an alternative reality that appears without escape, while the situation worsens and the collapse of an entire system approaches. Thrown on the front line, Nicola is the protagonist and witness of events that he would never have imagined: come on European leaders to avoid insulation of the country to the decision of unprecedented closures and complicated reopenings, and from International Risiko of the masks until most large vaccination campaign never attempted, In a political climate that gradually arises, with a change of government in the midst of the crisis.
There is no longer a rest, nor family life: for him and for his colleagues who have become friends, the price to pay to complete the work will be high. This is a story that the whole world has experienced, but that nobody has ever told from inside the rooms in which everyone’s destinies were decided. Nicola Del Duce, born in Rome, graduated in letters and philosophy with historical address at the University of Rome La Sapienza, master’s degree in international relations in Bologna in 2003, is a publicist journalist and alternates the press office activity with that of editor. In 2015 he began to collaborate with Roberto Speranza, who followed in experience at the Ministry of Health with the role of spokesperson.