"A political leader of rare moral caliber. Sardinian like Antonio Gramsci, Enrico Berlinguer had never severed his roots with Sardinia. And today young people, reading or rereading Berlinguer and Gramsci, could find a key to understanding the events of our days". Thus - also presenting the exhibition dedicated to Berlinguer, forty years after his death - the director of the Unione Sarda Emanuele Dessì remembers the historic leader of the PCI, born on 25 May 1922. It is one of the anniversaries chosen and commented on by Dessì who returns as editorialist of the week from 19 to 25 May to "Il giorno e la Storia", the Rai Cultura program signed 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.
Dessì Week opens on Monday, May 19, remembering Pope Celestine V , who died in 1296. His figure - immortalized by Dante in the "great refusal" - is linked to the choice to renounce the papacy, in 1294, to return to an ascetic life. Tuesday 20 marks the victory of Fellini's film "La dolce vita" at Cannes. A film that beats all box office records and becomes a national case, also due to the controversy that accompanies its release.
On Wednesday 21st we return to 2006, when Montenegro became an independent state, after the popular referendum that sanctioned the end of the union with Serbia, while on Thursday 22nd we commemorate the birth, in 1974 in Turin, of the Special Anti-Terrorism Unit , established by General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa.
Friday the 23rd is the day in 1498 when Girolamo Savonarola dies at the stake in Piazza della Signoria in Florence. His explicit and violent attacks against the clergy and corrupt rulers make him unpopular with Pope Alexander VI, who excommunicates him in 1497, accusing him of heresy.
Saturday 24th features Eduardo De Filippo , born in 1900. Actor, director and playwright, he is one of the greatest exponents of Neapolitan theatre, but above all of twentieth-century Italian culture. After his debut with his brothers Peppino and Titina, he founded «Il teatro di Eduardo», whose program includes masterpieces such as «Napoli Milionaria» and «Filumena Marturano».
Emanuele Dessì's week ends on Sunday 25 May by remembering the birth of Enrico Berlinguer, to whom the exhibition set up in Sassari, his hometown, was dedicated, and has now moved to Cagliari and will be open until the end of May .
(Online Union)
