From Craxi’s last speech in the Chamber of Deputies to the death of director Sergio Leone, up to the death of Napoleon, passing through the election of Margaret Thatcher, the release of the film “Citizen Kane”, the trial for the Calabresi murder and the birth of Machiavelli. Pages of history at the center of the anniversaries from 29 April to 5 May, chosen and commented by the director of “La Provincia di Como, Lecco e Sondrio” Diego Minonziowho returns as a columnist to “Il giorno e la Storia”, the Rai Cultura program signed by Giovanni Paolo Fontanabroadcast every day at 00.10 and repeated at 8.30, 11.30, 14.00 and 20.10 on Rai Storia.
Minonzio’s week opens with Bettino Craxi’s last speech to the Chamber of Deputies, on 29 April 1993, when the Chamber denies authorization to proceed against him for Tangentopoli.
On Tuesday the memory goes to the director Sergio Leone died in Rome on 30 April 1989. He is the son of art and the undisputed master of the spaghetti-western genre, inaugurated with the film “A Fistful of Dollars”.
In the spotlight, on Wednesday, the film “Citizen Kane” by Orson Wellesreleased in the United States on May 1, 1941 with the title “Citizen Kane” and inspired by the American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst.
At the center of Thursday’s reflection, the judicial process against those allegedly responsible for the Calabresi murder in 1972: on 2 May 1990 the former members of Lotta Continua Adriano Sofri, Ovidio Bompressi, Giorgio Pietrostefani they are sentenced to 22 years, the repentant Leonardo Marino at 11.
Friday marks the birthday of Niccolo Machiavelliborn in Florence on 3 May 1469. All his political thought is summarized in “the Prince”.
Saturday is in the name of Margaret Thatcher. The leader of the Tory party became Prime Minister of the English government on 4 May 1979. The “Iron Lady” was the first woman in this role in the history of Great Britain.
Diego Minonzio’s week ends with memories Napoleon Bonapartewho died on 5 May 1821 in exile on St Helena, where he was forced after the defeat at Waterloo.
