Emanuele Dessì on “Il giorno e la Storia” on Rai
The director of L'Unione Sarda comments on the week's anniversaries
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From the births of Oscar Wilde and Michele Schirru to the death of Antonio Meucci, from Albert Einstein's escape to the United States to the "witch hunt" that hits Hollywood, from Admiral Nelson's victory in the naval battle of Trafalgar to the incarceration of the "executioner of Vichy”, Maurice Papon. Facts and characters at the center of the anniversaries of the week from 16 to 22 October, commented by Emanuele Dessì, director of L'Unione Sarda , who returns as a columnist to "Il giorno e la Storia" , the Rai Cultura program created by Giovanni Paolo Fontana , broadcast every day at 00.10 and repeated at 8.30, 11.30, 14.00 and 20.10 on Rai Storia, digital terrestrial channel 54 or on RaiPlay.
We begin on Monday 16 October with the memory of the writer and poet Oscar Wilde , born in Dublin in 1854. It was 1884 when he published his masterpiece "The Picture of Dorian Gray". In 1895, at the height of his career, Wilde was accused of sodomy and sentenced to 2 years of hard labor.
Tuesday 17 October we return to 1933, the day Albert Einstein arrived in the United States. The Jewish scientist leaves Germany to escape Nazi persecution. At the time he had already won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the theory of relativity.
Wednesday 18 October is, however, the anniversary of the death of Antonio Meucci in 1889. It was in New York, where he moved in 1850, that he developed the "telephone", but the United States Congress gave him the primacy of invention of the telephone only a century after his death.
Thursday 19 October Dessì remembers Michele Schirru , an anarchist naturalized American citizen, born near Sassari in 1899. Having returned to Italy to carry out an attack against Mussolini, in 1931 Schirru was tried by the Special Fascist Court and sentenced to death.
On Friday 20 October, the focus will be on the beginning of the witch hunt in Hollywood by the Committee on Un-American Activities in 1947. The accusation is of belonging to the Communist Party. Among the first to denounce many authors and directors was Walt Disney .
Saturday 21 October will retrace the victory of the British naval fleet, led by Admiral Horatio Nelson , in 1805, against the Franco-Iberian fleet off the coast of Spain, in Trafalgar. A victory that crushes Napoleon's ambitions.
The week ends on Sunday 22 October, the day on which, in 1999, the former French minister Maurice Papon, the " Vichy executioner ", was incarcerated in the Santè prison in Paris. Over ninety years old, he is serving a ten-year prison sentence for complicity in crimes against humanity.
(Unioneonline)
