ABSTRACT
Biographies of charismatic political leaders often begin with a constitutive psychological event in the childhood of their subjects, a shaming failure perhaps, or a trauma, a peculiar relationship with a parent, or some other means to explain the subsequent political obsession. Bossi has been no exception. A biography thus concluded:
The portrait of Umberto Bossi that emerges from this work is that of
a person with a strong personality and a great sense of self esteem, thanks to a good relationship with the mother, but a lack of models of authority, because of the lack of a father figure.
