He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. Barbareschi grew up in Milan with his father Francesco Saverio Barbareschi, who was an engineer and entrepreneur with a partisan past (battle name Luca and white partisan in the Passerini brigade in Varese) and his mother Maria Antonietta Hirsch, an economist of Jewish origin. He was married to Patrizia Fachini. He is father of Eleonora , Angelica and Beatrice. Subsequently during 90' he was the partner of the actress Lucrezia Lante Della Rovere for seven years. He is married with Elena Monorchio, daughter of the former state accountant general Andrea, with whom he had two children: Maddalena and Francesco Saverio. In the 2008, he became Member of the Italian Parliament. Member of the Italian Parliament.