Roberto Benigni merita un grande “grazie!”. Certo, alcune baggianate were spoken in her performance at the Festival of Sanremo.
For example, if I understand (because it bundled with a speech topics overexcited) said it was Mazzini, in 1830, invented the Tricolore. E 'nonsense.
I wonder how 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 colors 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 (the red cross on a white field that came from the Crusades) and the unification of Italy is largely an 'enterprise Po " .
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, I wonder why the news as a brilliant re-launched 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. Too bad that he dropped.
And pity that the prayer had celebrated a civil Benigni Risorgimento elementary school a hundred years ago.
It 'been a flood of rhetoric from a small lookout Lombard. He told a tale full of heroes, young and strong (who died) far removed from reality.
There was even a hint of gray areas, the errors and also the horrors of the "conquest of Piedmont."
Benigni said that I think has been great and has done a great thing anyway.
First of all his feelings and his emotions that have touched our hearts and made us feel as our national anthem even an 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 (actually Benigni's performance in Sanremo was the most anticipated speeches of the President Napolitano) . In reality there
una ragione profonda. E’ data dal fatto che, dopo il fascismo, che ridusse l’amor di patria a una macchietta comica prima e tragica poi (per il nazionalismo, il colonialismo e la catastrofe bellica), le sole due modalità che gli italiani, nel cinquantennio repubblicano, 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 della celebrazione di Benigni era emblematico: il festival di Sanremo e la Tv.
Emblematico perché (primo) Festival e Tv sono il tempio del sentimento nazional-popolare, (secondo) perché rientrano perfettamente nello stereotipo più diffuso e banale – gli italiani spaghetti e mandolino – e (terzo) perché confermano perfino lo stereotipo colto per il quale – in fin dei conti – la nostra arte e la nostra cultura ci fanno da duemila anni il cuore del mondo (del resto il Festival si vanta di essere “la musica italiana”).
C’è un’altra piccola rivoluzione memorabile compiuta da Benigni: per un cinquantennio la parola “patria” è stata un tabù per la Sinistra comunista e per la cultura ufficiale. Bastava pronunciarla per essere accusati di fascismo .
Non solo. I comunisti avevano certamente dato un grandissimo contributo alla liberazione del Paese dal nazifascismo, nella guerra partigiana, però il Pci era asservito a Stalin, a una potenza straniera minacciosa e nemica dell’Italia.
Per capire cosa significa ciò bisogna ricordare 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 coming to Trieste with sights hungry and aggressive, 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 who responded 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). Even in
Eighties - in the decisive event 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 targeted on Europe, he chose a "pacifism" which actually meant not to defend national interests and benefit the USSR (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 acknowledge 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 been 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 the same simplicity. 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.
Antonio Socci on Free , February 19, 2011
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