"The day and the story": in-depth analysis with Emanuele Dessì and Giovanni Paolo Fontana
The director of L'Unione Sarda returns as a columnist in the Rai Cultura programme
Giovanni Paolo Fontana with Emanuele Dessi
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One hundred and thirty-two years ago, on 22 January 1891, Antonio Gramsci was born in Ales, in the province of Cagliari, one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party in 1921.
It is one of the anniversaries commented by Emanuele Dessì, director of L'Unione Sarda, who returns as columnist of the week from 16 to 22 January to "Il giorno e la Storia", the Rai Cultura program signed by Giovanni Paolo Fontana, broadcast all the days at 00.10 and in repeat at 8.30, 11.30, 14.00 and 20.10 on Rai Storia.
The interventions will have as background the Press Center of L'Unione Sarda.
It begins on Monday 16 January, the day on which, in 1979, the Shah of Persia, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, already ill, leaves Iran to take refuge in Egypt, the only country willing to welcome him.
On Tuesday, January 17, the outbreak of the first Gulf War in 1991 was in the foreground. Operation Desert Storm aims to restore the sovereignty of Kuwait, which was invaded by Saddam Hussein. It is the first conflict followed on live TV.
On Wednesday 18 January the protagonist is the painter Renato Guttuso, who died in Rome in 1987. Born in Bagheria in Sicily in 1911, the artist expresses in his works all the warmth and color of his Sicilian land.
Thursday 19 Dessì draws a portrait of Bettino Craxi, who died in 2000, in Hammamet, Tunisia. The first socialist to hold the position of Prime Minister from 1983 to 1987, Craxi was the protagonist of epochal events such as the signing of the new Concordat with the Holy See. He was involved in the investigations of Tangentopoli and in 1994 he decided to take refuge in Hammamet.
Friday 20 January the memory goes to Federico Fellini, born in Rimini in 1920. The first film "The White Sheik" is from 1952, the last, "La Voce della Luna" from 1990. In between five Oscars (one of career) and immortal titles: 8 e ½, La dolce vita, Amarcord.
On Saturday 21 January, the visit of John Paul II to Cuba in 1998 will be retraced.
The Pope thus reciprocates the visit that Fidel Castro made two years earlier, during the FAO World Meeting in Rome.
The memory of Antonio Gramsci, Sunday 22 January, closes the week of director Dessì. His biography highlights his years in Russia, as an Italian delegate in the executive of the International, during which he studies the developments of the dictatorship of the proletariat. In Moscow he meets a violinist, Giulia Schucht, who becomes his wife and with whom he has two children. On 8 November 1926 he was arrested by the fascist police and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 27, 1937.
