Born in Rome in 1975, Giuli has a history of right-wing youth militancy. He inherited his political faith from his father’s family: his paternal grandfather had been a staunch supporter of Benito Mussolini’s regime and the Republic of Salò.

At fourteen, Giuli joined the Fronte della Gioventù, the youth organization of the Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI, a party nostalgic for fascism and heir to the Republic of Salò).

He also participated in neo-fascist and neo-Nazi movements active in the city.

After graduating from high school in classical studies at Liceo Tasso, in 1994, he enrolled in the Faculty of Letters at La Sapienza University, where he mostly took philosophy courses.

In those years he developed his passion for pre-Christian paganism and ancient Italic populations,

to which he would dedicate studies and research over the years with connections to neo-fascist culture,

which during the twentieth century was often inspired by the rituals and imagery of those peoples.

In the meantime, Giuli began his career as a journalist in the newspaper of the Italian Social Democratic Party, center-left, L’Umanità.

During his university years, which he never completed, he began working at Vespana,

a press agency founded and directed by the journalist Giorgio Dell’Arti.

From there in 2004 he moved to Giuliano Ferrara’s Il Foglio, first as a collaborator,

then as a political reporter, until he became deputy director and then co-director of the newspaper between 2015 and 2016.

Giuli, however, believed the editorial line of the newspaper was wrong,

which in that period went more to the left supporting the political rise of Matteo Renzi, then secretary of the PD.

After leaving Il Foglio, he went to direct the magazine Tempi, of Catholic and conservative orientation.

Giuli has also had various collaborations with TV programs and newspapers.

Between 2020 and 2022 he hosted and personally edited some programs on Rai 2,

none of which were very successful and some were suspended after just a couple of episodes due to lack of ratings.

During the first “yellow-green” government led by Giuseppe Conte he got closer to the League,

but he has always remained very close to the Roman right-wing circles, and has long been a friend of Giorgia Meloni and various leaders of her party.

His sister Antonella Giuli, who was for a long time responsible for communications for Fratelli d’Italia and then spokesperson for the Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida, has been working for a few months in the press office of the Chamber of Deputies.

His name had already been circulating with some insistence in October 2022,

as a possible Minister of Culture in Meloni’s government. Instead, a month later, the Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano appointed him president of the MAXXI foundation,

which manages the museum of contemporary art in Rome and which until that moment had always been controlled by people from the progressive area.

In recent times, without ever denying his past and his youthful militancy,

Giuli has attempted to represent a more moderate and institutional approach to the right,

preaching the need to abandon the most radical sovereignist demands

and against the so-called “establishment” that characterize the propaganda of Fratelli d’Italia.

He is married to Valeria Falcioni, a Sky journalist, with whom he has two children.

And from September 6, 2024 he is the new Minister of Culture under the Giorgia Meloni government.