Luca Telese Closes Porto Cervo Libri

On Tuesday, Sept. 10, the LA7 journalist and anchor speaks about his latest work dedicated to Enrico Berlinguer

Last, unmissable, appointment of the Porto Cervo Libri season. It will be Luca Telese who will close the billboard of the emerald literary kermesse now that his daily television engagements come to an end after he has been a daily protagonist on La7 with the program In Onda hosted together with journalist Marianna Aprile.

Once the live broadcasts of his much-followed talk show are over, Luca Telese will arrive in the Sottopiazza on Tuesday, Sept. 10 at 7:30 p.m. to talk about his latest book, which came out just before the summer and is dedicated to the figure of the great and unforgettable statesman from Sassari, Enrico Berlinguer. After the great success of La scorta di Enrico (Enrico's Escort), Telese, who has been the editor of Il Centro, Abruzzo's main daily newspaper, for a few weeks and the son-in-law of one of the titans of Sardinian politics nationally and internationally, a personality who left his mark on the history of our country, has given to Solferino Opposition to print. The Last Battle of Enrico Berlinguer.

Luca Telese

A conservative, ideological leader, anchored in twentieth-century categories: this is how Berlinguer is portrayed in the early 1980s. Analysts and journalists decree that his political time is over and in the leadership of the PCI an increasingly harsh dissent mounts toward his choices. But meanwhile, in the country, the Communist secretary has become a myth for entire masses of people: including many who do not vote for his party. His funeral, with millions of tearful Italians parading in front of the coffin, will demonstrate this with the evidence of a collective mourning never again experienced after that. What had happened? Simple: Berlinguer, in those years, had been in opposition. He defended the interests of the workers, the working classes, the last, who for him were the first. And he intercepted the most alive and contemporary problems: the defense of peace, the struggle of women, the battle for the environment. He was not, as he has been portrayed, the man of the moral question, but the man of the social question, and precisely for this reason, in the years leading up to that last election campaign, he sailed the most difficult of seas: without secure rents, strong endorsements or easy choices. He lost the consensus of the ruling class, but won a people. Luca Telese traces today the last years of Enrico Berlinguer's human and political adventure and the battle that led him to an epic and heartbreaking death, on stage in Padua. He does so by restoring voice, faces and names to a world now gone, but his is not a nostalgia operation. It is a very topical message for today's politics, for its reluctance, for its compromises: opposition was something else. And it still could be.

The event is free and free admission.