Roberto Benigni deserves a big "thanks". Sure, some of the crap said in his performance at the Sanremo Festival.
For example, if I understand (because it bundled with a speech topics overexcited) said it was Mazzini, in 1830, invented the Tricolore. E 'nonsense.
C hiss as he came to mind: the Tricolore was designed by Luigi Zamboni and De Giambattista Rolandis in Bologna in 1794 (I said recently in these columns). It was then taken up - as everyone knows - the Republic Cispadana in 1797. Mazzini was not even born.
benignesco suggestive is the reference to the origins of the Tricolor by Divine Comedy (Purgatorio XXX, 30-33), but unfortunately the actor knows that the Tuscan white, red and green dress Beatrice indicate the three theological virtues Faith, Hope and Charity, and so the reference to Dante's remains incomplete.
Somebody should explain to Bossi and the League that the Tricolor was born from the banner of the Lombard League (in the red cross white field coming from the Crusades) and the unification of Italy is largely an 'enterprise valley. "
But who knows if they listen. To return to
Benigni, then there are the gaffes due all'ingarbugliamento minutes of comedy, as when he said that Italian culture existed before the nation's nonsense, who knows why echoed by news like a brilliant idea.
meant to say that the Italian nation and culture existed before the unitary state (which is precisely built in 1861).
was a beautiful idea - that of the Italian culture before the State - which would be investigated. Peccato che l’abbia lasciato cadere.
E peccato che l’orazione civile di Benigni abbia celebrato un Risorgimento da scuola elementare di cento anni fa.
E’ stato un alluvione di retorica da piccola vedetta lombarda. Ha narrato una favoletta piena di eroi giovani e forti (che sono morti) assai lontana dalla realtà dei fatti.
Non c’è stato nemmeno il sentore delle zone d’ombra, degli errori e pure degli orrori della “conquista piemontese”.
Detto questo credo che Benigni sia stato grande e abbia fatto comunque una grande cosa.
Prima di tutto per la sua emozione e la sua commozione che ci hanno toccato il cuore e che ci hanno fatto sentire come even our national anthem is unlikely and somewhat awkward.
Benigni's case is emblematic. Nobody has thought about how strange that a comedian is in fact entrusted the only true celebration of the 150th anniversary of Italy (in fact Benigni's performance in Sanremo was the most anticipated speeches of the President Napolitano).
In reality there is a deeper reason. And 'the fact that, after fascism, which reduced his love of country to a speck first comic and tragic then (for nationalism, colonialism and the catastrophe of war), the only two ways that Italians, in the fifty years Republican , si sono concessi per essere patriottici sono state il calcio (lo stadio, dove giocava la Nazionale, è diventato l’unico posto dove sventolavamo il Tricolore) e la comicità (vedi “La grande guerra” interpretata da Gassman e Sordi, per fare un esempio).
Il registro comico ci permette infatti di dirci che siamo fieri di essere italiani (specie col mito “italiani brava gente”), ma con un sorriso rassicurante, col sottinteso cioè che non ci prendiamo troppo sul serio e nessuno si sogna più di emulare la Roma imperiale: infatti gli italiani possono essere solo “eroi involontari”, proprio come Gassman e Sordi in quel capolavoro di Monicelli.
Anche il palcoscenico Benigni was emblematic of the celebration: the festival of Sanremo and Tv
emblematic because (first) and TV Festival is the temple of popular national feeling, (second) because it fit perfectly into the stereotype more widespread and commonplace - the Italians spaghetti and mandolin - and (third) because they confirm the stereotype even caught for which - ultimately - our art and our culture make us two thousand years the heart of the world (the rest of the festival prides itself on being "the music Italian).
There is another small revolution made memorable by Benigni: for half a century the word "homeland" is been a taboo for the communist left and the mainstream culture. Just say to be accused of fascism.
not alone. The Communists had certainly made a great contribution to the country's liberation from fascism, in the partisan war, but the Communist Party was in thrall to Stalin, to a foreign power and threatening enemy of Italy.
To understand what that means it must be remembered that in the most dramatic moment of confrontation between the USSR and the free world, around 1948-1949, when the Red Army was eating half of Europe, enslaving tens of countries in Eastern Europe and reaching Trieste with a hungry and aggressive aims, as a Enrico Berlinguer - The best of that field (at that time leader of FGCI) - stated that in case of war the young people would not fight against the Red Army. He made the same indignant
De Gasperi said that in person, with his tough speech (the link with the USSR's Communist Party last long: even the Soviet funding came up in the late seventies).
again in the eighties - the crucial matter of the missiles (which will cause the changes in Moscow by the collapse of communism) - the Communist Party, rather than siding with NATO to deal with the threat of Soviet missiles trained on ' Europe, he chose a "pacifism" which actually meant not to defend national interests and benefit the Soviet Union (I wonder if President Napolitano remember ...).
Having said that today we can speak of "home" without ideological taboos of the past, as it did Benigni is a good thing. That together we can recognize our past and our country as one family is wonderful.
more so on this anniversary of 150 years of national unity, in which the country seems torn apart by hatred and contempt for each other makes it nearly impossible to identify themselves as one people. Benigni has
found to play a role that should not be entrusted to an actor, especially a comic actor, but he found religion in his own way to sing a hymn that has united us and nobody would return with equal ease. For a few minutes on mutual hatred and contempt has prevailed in all the feeling of being a people. It has prevailed love for that beautiful thing called Italy.
For example, if I understand (because it bundled with a speech topics overexcited) said it was Mazzini, in 1830, invented the Tricolore. E 'nonsense.
C hiss as he came to mind: the Tricolore was designed by Luigi Zamboni and De Giambattista Rolandis in Bologna in 1794 (I said recently in these columns). It was then taken up - as everyone knows - the Republic Cispadana in 1797. Mazzini was not even born.
benignesco suggestive is the reference to the origins of the Tricolor by Divine Comedy (Purgatorio XXX, 30-33), but unfortunately the actor knows that the Tuscan white, red and green dress Beatrice indicate the three theological virtues Faith, Hope and Charity, and so the reference to Dante's remains incomplete.
Somebody should explain to Bossi and the League that the Tricolor was born from the banner of the Lombard League (in the red cross white field coming from the Crusades) and the unification of Italy is largely an 'enterprise valley. "
But who knows if they listen. To return to
Benigni, then there are the gaffes due all'ingarbugliamento minutes of comedy, as when he said that Italian culture existed before the nation's nonsense, who knows why echoed by news like a brilliant idea.
meant to say that the Italian nation and culture existed before the unitary state (which is precisely built in 1861).
was a beautiful idea - that of the Italian culture before the State - which would be investigated. Peccato che l’abbia lasciato cadere.
E peccato che l’orazione civile di Benigni abbia celebrato un Risorgimento da scuola elementare di cento anni fa.
E’ stato un alluvione di retorica da piccola vedetta lombarda. Ha narrato una favoletta piena di eroi giovani e forti (che sono morti) assai lontana dalla realtà dei fatti.
Non c’è stato nemmeno il sentore delle zone d’ombra, degli errori e pure degli orrori della “conquista piemontese”.
Detto questo credo che Benigni sia stato grande e abbia fatto comunque una grande cosa.
Prima di tutto per la sua emozione e la sua commozione che ci hanno toccato il cuore e che ci hanno fatto sentire come even our national anthem is unlikely and somewhat awkward.
Benigni's case is emblematic. Nobody has thought about how strange that a comedian is in fact entrusted the only true celebration of the 150th anniversary of Italy (in fact Benigni's performance in Sanremo was the most anticipated speeches of the President Napolitano).
In reality there is a deeper reason. And 'the fact that, after fascism, which reduced his love of country to a speck first comic and tragic then (for nationalism, colonialism and the catastrophe of war), the only two ways that Italians, in the fifty years Republican , si sono concessi per essere patriottici sono state il calcio (lo stadio, dove giocava la Nazionale, è diventato l’unico posto dove sventolavamo il Tricolore) e la comicità (vedi “La grande guerra” interpretata da Gassman e Sordi, per fare un esempio).
Il registro comico ci permette infatti di dirci che siamo fieri di essere italiani (specie col mito “italiani brava gente”), ma con un sorriso rassicurante, col sottinteso cioè che non ci prendiamo troppo sul serio e nessuno si sogna più di emulare la Roma imperiale: infatti gli italiani possono essere solo “eroi involontari”, proprio come Gassman e Sordi in quel capolavoro di Monicelli.
Anche il palcoscenico Benigni was emblematic of the celebration: the festival of Sanremo and Tv
emblematic because (first) and TV Festival is the temple of popular national feeling, (second) because it fit perfectly into the stereotype more widespread and commonplace - the Italians spaghetti and mandolin - and (third) because they confirm the stereotype even caught for which - ultimately - our art and our culture make us two thousand years the heart of the world (the rest of the festival prides itself on being "the music Italian).
There is another small revolution made memorable by Benigni: for half a century the word "homeland" is been a taboo for the communist left and the mainstream culture. Just say to be accused of fascism.
not alone. The Communists had certainly made a great contribution to the country's liberation from fascism, in the partisan war, but the Communist Party was in thrall to Stalin, to a foreign power and threatening enemy of Italy.
To understand what that means it must be remembered that in the most dramatic moment of confrontation between the USSR and the free world, around 1948-1949, when the Red Army was eating half of Europe, enslaving tens of countries in Eastern Europe and reaching Trieste with a hungry and aggressive aims, as a Enrico Berlinguer - The best of that field (at that time leader of FGCI) - stated that in case of war the young people would not fight against the Red Army. He made the same indignant
De Gasperi said that in person, with his tough speech (the link with the USSR's Communist Party last long: even the Soviet funding came up in the late seventies).
again in the eighties - the crucial matter of the missiles (which will cause the changes in Moscow by the collapse of communism) - the Communist Party, rather than siding with NATO to deal with the threat of Soviet missiles trained on ' Europe, he chose a "pacifism" which actually meant not to defend national interests and benefit the Soviet Union (I wonder if President Napolitano remember ...).
Having said that today we can speak of "home" without ideological taboos of the past, as it did Benigni is a good thing. That together we can recognize our past and our country as one family is wonderful.
more so on this anniversary of 150 years of national unity, in which the country seems torn apart by hatred and contempt for each other makes it nearly impossible to identify themselves as one people. Benigni has
found to play a role that should not be entrusted to an actor, especially a comic actor, but he found religion in his own way to sing a hymn that has united us and nobody would return with equal ease. For a few minutes on mutual hatred and contempt has prevailed in all the feeling of being a people. It has prevailed love for that beautiful thing called Italy.
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