Culture and its essence and distribution are the foundation of Italy. If I could, I would change the art. 1 of the Constitution: “Italy is a republic founded on culture”. I say this with conviction, because this claim would also apply to other values, including work. As I have written many times, practicing culture is good for the mind, the body and the economy.
The largest and best-known Italian cultural industry is now the Rai, is turning 70, with a few aches and pains, but these are more due to lack of care than age. Like many former beautiful ladies, she puts on too much makeup and dresses up extravagant and sometimes kitschy, sometimes neglecting taste and style. Many programs are factories of nothingness due to their scenography and kitsch backdrop. Conversely, there are excellent channels like Rai 5, Rai 4, Rai Storia in the Rai Cultura section and almost always Rai 3 with Mieli: essential scenography but great content. Mieli is ecumenical, cultured, an objective mediator who, for example, recounts the twenty years with clever elegance and style. I still remember several episodes about utopian cities such as Latina, Sabaudia, Como, but also about the small Tresigallo, Jolanda di Savoia in the Ferrara area and Carbonia with the contribution of the great architects and masters of rationalism such as Terragni, Libera, Pagano , Piacentini, Montuori, Valle.
Rai, beyond books and pamphlets written without any real in-depth analysis and only for this purpose conformism Despite the complacency of some politicians, she was a master at talking about rationalism, which is still taboo for many pseudo-intellectuals. Nevertheless, the various series about Renaissance protagonists, even if they are intended with different formats and for a more popular audience, are criticized by “purists”, but I argue, certainly useful for history fasting. Recently, the Pazzi Conspiracy, which took place in Florence at Easter 1478, was revived, paying particular attention to photography and costumes, and filmed in the locations where the conspiracy took place, including Santa Maria del Fiore, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Via Calzaioli and Palazzo Vecchio.
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Here, this new proposal of the most important images of emblematic cities for cultural heritage was a great challenge for Rai, also with popular national broadcasts, but also precisely for this reason with the right pedagogical intentions. Education that could be carried out with light entertainment, also in places reminiscent of our musical culture, such as historical theaters but also castles and noble houses. However, the true cultural heritage of Rai is the OSN, whichNational Symphony Orchestra based in Turin at the Arturo Toscanini Auditorium, a few steps from the regional headquarters, a wealth of emotions and recognized worldwide for the amazing guided tours that give a very high quality picture of our unique and incomparable culture and beauty.