Next Wednesday (3 July) at 9.30 pm, at Poggio Salamartano in Fucecchio, the presentation of the new book by Indro Montanelli will be held Like a pirate ship (Rizzoli), edited by Letizia Moizzi with a preface by Luigi Mascheroni. The event sponsored by the Municipality of Fucecchio is organized by the Montanelli Bassi Foundation.
After the institutional greeting from the new mayor Emma Donnini, interventions are planned Agnes Pinidirector QN – La Nazione, of Louis Mascheroni, journalist and Letizia Moizzi, president of the Montanelli Bassi Ets Foundation. The actor Andrea Giuntini will read passages from the book.
“This newspaper was born from a revolt and a challenge”. June 25, 1974: this is how Montanelli’s editorial in the first issue of his begins. Newspaper.
He spent twenty years at the helm of the newspaper he founded and it is not difficult to think that that revolt and that challenge will remain the distinctive feature of Montanelli’s work. A journalism without flags, but always aligned, free by instinct, controversial, but often conservative, challenging by definition, nonconformist by intimate nature, rebellious because to some extent anarchic, piratical, corsair, as in the title of this volume.
A volume opened by an in-depth and compelling essay by Luigi Mascheroni which retraces the events of the newspaper under the guidance of Indro, twenty years of political, cultural and rights battles up to the well-known epilogue and the break with Berlusconi no longer just an editor, but “entering the field” in the political arena.
To provide tangible proof of Montanelli’s extraordinary pen, a selection of editorials, articles, editorials, responses to the reader and «Controcorrente» designed to give a cross-section of the director’s commitment, ranging from politics to sport, from history to customs, from rights to the environment.
Finally, at the end of the volume, a surprising gallery: memories of Indro signed by more or less unsuspected characters. Which we report here: Pier Bergonzi, Pier Luigi Bersani, Marzio Breda, Alberto Casiraghy, Tony Damascelli, Diego Gabutti, Jocelyn, Giampiero Mughini, Stella Pende, Gianfranco Ravasi, Michele Serra, Andrée Ruth Shammah, Enrico Vanzina and Mara Venier.
Everyone agreed to offer an anecdote, a thought, a snapshot of the director for the occasion.
The initiative is part of the cycle Lettera 22, meetings with the world of journalism and takes place within the meetings At the Caffè del Poggioin collaboration with the Mcl Club.
Free entry, no reservation required.
