Negoziazione dell’identità pubblica in tribunale

ABSTRACT (In English):The piece of courtroom conversation discussed in this article is part of a transcript made from a video recording of a cross-examination of Antonio Di Pietro, the former leader of the group of Italian magistrates who carried out the Mani Puliti anti-corruption campaign in Milan between 1992 and 1995. Di Pietro later became the italian minister of Public Works shortly after the centre-left alliance, Ulivo (The Olive Tree) - led by Romano Prodi - gained power in Italy in April 1996. Di Pietro later resigned the post of Minister of Public Works, due to pending investigations into some of his actions while in his former role as magistrate during the Mani Puliti campaign.This particular section of the cross-examination was broadcast on several national TV news programs in Italy while the proceedings were going on, and the rather curious and convoluted nature of this short conversation between the president of the tribunal and Di Pietro makes this an especially unusual and interesting piece of both technologically mediated, and thus essentially highly public, discourse.