On October 18, the day after rioters looted central Milan, the communist daily Il Manifesto ran its front-page story under “La bella stagione” (The Beautiful Season), with the headline “The city’s excluded take the streets.” In the right-wing La Verità, editor Maurizio Belpietro titled his editorial “Them in jail, us in the streets” and wrote that the destroyers “should not be understood, but punished.” Those contrasting responses reflect the Italian media’s longstanding political divide, evident in coverage of Milan’s riots.

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