Former President of the Republic Antonio Segni and former secretary of the PCI Enrico Berlinguer: there are also two illustrious people from Sassari among the figures at the centre of the anniversaries chosen and commented on by the director of L'Unione Sarda Emanuele Dessì, who returns as editorialist of the week from 25 November to 1 December on “Il giorno e la Storia”, the Rai Cultura programme created by Giovanni Paolo Fontana (pictured left with Dessì) , broadcast every day at 00.10 and repeated at 8.30, 11.30, 14.00 and 20.10 on Rai Storia.
Dessì's week opens by returning to 2020 when Diego Armando Maradona, "El pibe de oro", died in Argentina. Genius and wildness, World Champion in 1986, he arrived in Italian football, in Naples, in 1984, becoming the idol of the city.
On Tuesday, we remember the director Bernardo Bertolucci , who died in Rome in 2018. His first major international success was “Last Tango in Paris”, from 1972, censored in Italy until 1987, the same year of his definitive consecration with “The Last Emperor”, a film that won nine Oscars.
On Wednesday, Enrico Berlinguer, who in 1980 declared the season of historical compromise closed, placing the moral question as a priority, while on Thursday, the date commemorates when in 1520, after having sailed through the South American strait that took his name, the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean.
On Friday we return to 1960 when the artist Fortunato Depero died in Rovereto. Born in 1892, he arrived in Rome at a very young age and was struck by Umberto Boccioni. Giacomo Balla's favorite student, he wrote with him the "Manifesto of the Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe".
TV is the protagonist of Saturday's anniversary: in 1928, in Genoa, Enzo Tortora was born, host and inventor of formats such as the unforgettable "Portobello", but his name is also linked to the sensational arrest in 1983 on charges of Camorra-style criminal association. Sentenced in the first instance, he was definitively acquitted by the Supreme Court in 1987.
