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Vittorio Umberto Antonio Maria Sgarbi (born 8 May 1952 in Ferrara) is an Italian art critic, art historian, politician, cultural commentator and television personality. In 1996 he was condemned for fraud against the Italian State and in 2012 he ceased to be Mayor of Salemi because of Mafia infiltration.[6] He was appointed curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale.[7] Several times a member of the Italian Parliament, he served also in Milan's municipal government.

Vittorio Sgarbi attended the Classical Lyceum "Ludovico Ariosto" of Ferrara and then graduated in Philosophy "cum laude" at the University of Bologna, where he also obtained the specialization in History of Art.

His Sgarbi Quotidiani (Daily Rudenesses) TV show during the 1990s was a 15-minute daily discussion of current events. During some of those shows he furiously attacked some Italian judges during the Tangentopoli corruption scandal. This scandal led to great turmoil in Italian politics, with the fall of many traditional parties and the subsequent rise of Silvio Berlusconi, subsequently himself convicted of tax fraud.[citation needed] Sgarbi attacked the use of preventive detention in prison; he declared that many people had been arrested without a proper warrant and that some innocent people had been unjustly accused.

Although he has strongly defended the role of Catholicism as a foundation of Italian culture, he defines himself as an atheist. On ethical issues — for example, that of euthanasia or in the case of Eluana Englaro, whose life was artificially prolonged by 17 years in a vegetative coma, he sided with the Catholic Church. He has also declared his opposition not just to gay marriage but to marriage in general. He has a younger sister, Elisabetta Sgarbi, an Italian film producer and writer.