Tonight she will be celebrated by a splendid one docufilm on Rai 3by title “Milva, diva forever”. Maria Ilva Biolcati, aka Milva, made the history of Italian pop music (but also of theater and art in general). Beautiful, dark, elusive, she surrounded herself with loves that are too often “wrong”, ended badly or tragically, due to the faults of others. A love life full of tragedieshis, from the difficult divorce with Husband Maurizio Corgnati al lover’s suicide Louis. Here it is below all the details and curiosities about Milva.
Milva, difficult loves and bereavements
Diva of music and art, Milva. The red haired girl who made you fall in love with her by looking at her, listening to her, and… she has stolen the hearts of more than one man in his long life. She passed away at the age of 81 years oldin 2021, after a career studded with great successes, and a life marred by stumbles and misfortunes of various kinds. She starts with a wedding when she is very young, Milva. He is the producer Maurizio Corgnatithey met in the Sixties behind the scenes of “Quattro passi tra le cielo”, where he he’s a director and she is the immensely talented debutante.
But the age difference22 years oldit’s too much, so after wedding in 1961and his (only) daughter Martina, yes the divorce came in 1969. A tormented separation, among other things, because much later Maurizio candidly stated about Milva: “He went away taking my daughter too, I hated her for years”. She, however, has always kept fond memories of the only husband she had, calling him in a very tender way “my pygmalion, the man who taught me everything”.
After Maurizio, there was for Milva love with the young actor Mario Piave, unresolved soul. He comes murdered in Rome in 1979, the first real tragedy in Milva’s life. Then there will be the philosopher Massimo Gallerani, which finally brings Milva’s smile back. He, however, leaves her for another, so much so that the singer ends up falling into depression. Until the last true lover, the actor Luigi Pistilli. The relationship with Milva is stormy. Pistilli says about her: “Milva doesn’t like menshe chews them, they are convenient for her”. But at the end, before committing suicide, in a note he redeems himself by retracing his steps. After all, Milva was not “the cold and… incapable of love” that he said he hated so much.
Who was Maurizio Corgnati
Maurizio Corgnatiunique Milva’s husbandseparated from the singer in 1969. Together with her he a daughter, Martinawhich was born in 1963. Their love goes fast and is consumed quickly, until inevitable divorce. Both, in reality, will regret the separation, especially Milva who left Maurizio to be with a young man of the same age. He, a very successful film and then television producer, he remarried in 1976 with his second wife Letizia Di Maio. He passed away on March 30, 1992, at the age of 75, after the worsening of serious health problems with the esophagus.
