Vittorio Sgarbi was hospitalized in Rome, at the Gemelli Polyclinic.
According to reports, the 74-year-old art critic is in intensive care, in "serious" condition. The cause of his hospitalization is currently unknown.
Sgarbi has been struggling with health problems for some time. Last year, he was admitted to Gemelli Hospital due to worsening conditions caused by a depressive disorder and a refusal to eat (Sgarbi himself said he had reached a weight of 59 kilos ). The art critic himself later spoke about this depression ("Just as we have a body, so too do the shadows of the mind, thoughts, ghosts that are with us and that I cannot banish. I had never suffered from it. It feels like a train that has stopped at an unknown station," he explained in an interview) and from which he seemed to have recovered.
He's never hidden his troubles, both legal and physical. Like when he revealed in March 2021 that he was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. Going back even further, ten years ago, in 2016, he was urgently hospitalized in Modena for heart problems : a stroke while traveling and a coronary angioplasty.
Among his most recent public appearances were last May in Ferrara, when Sgarbi attended the 150th anniversary celebrations of the Corriere della Sera newspaper. Then, in July, he was a guest in Bergamo at La Milanesiana, the cultural festival directed by his sister Elisabetta. Finally, in August, he was in Rovereto to chart the course of the Mart museum, of which he is president.
(Unioneonline)