Tamara Baroni is dead: After a short illness, she passed away on Tuesday, December 28 at 10:22 p.m. at her home in Natal, Brazil. He was 75 years old. In a few days he would have celebrated his 76th birthday.
“We didn’t expect that – says her daughter Viviana – she had sent me a goodnight message on my cellphone a few hours earlier. To remember her and to pray for her, a ceremony will be held on January 3, her birthday, at 5 p.m. in the Church of Santa Maria del Rosario: “So that we family members, together with all her friends, may pray together for her” The funeral in Natal will be celebrated on Sunday January 1st.
Tamara, who lost her husband Gianni Garbellini in 2014 (he died after a fall: he fell from the roof of their house in Natal while repairing the tiles), leaves her large family with children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The daughters Viviana and Sara, Ciro and Marco, with their children and their respective families.
We publish part of his autobiography on the website www.tamaralaparmigiana.com
Tamara Baroni, born on January 3, 1947 in Parma, attended the master class of Maestre Luigine in Parma and obtained the teacher’s diploma at the age of 16. Married to Giuseppe Berteli at the age of 18 (marriage ended a few years later when the Sacra Rota was abolished), at the age of 19 she was already the mother of a little girl, Viviana. Immediately after that, she worked as a model and fashion model (she worked for Max Mara, Colgate on TV, Faber, etc.), she came close to the title of Miss Italy (the Miss Elegance sash was awarded to her only because she was married and the rules by Miss Italy at the time it excluded married women) and yes
Fourth place at Miss World. He was in a relationship with Bubi Bormioli (which has been and is still widely talked about). During this time, she was busy for a while in the world of sweet playboy life, but soon became bored with it.
She embarked on a theatrical career with Domenico Modugno (second actress), but the Bormioli scandal landed her in prison for 47 days.
Proven innocent, she began singing with Iller Pattacini (whom she later married) and his orchestra. In 1974 she returned to the theater for two years with Ric and Gian (“Der Frauenarzt”), after which she was the leading lady in a revue for another two years, in which she sang, danced and acted. She starred in a comedy written for her by Leo Chiosso (“What’s it to me if the world made me dead?!”) and then plunged into Tennessee Williams with Glass Zoo and later Sartre in Dirty Hands “, with Arnaldo Ninchi.
Courted by the greatest Italian directors, after her release from prison she took part in only a few short films, but the theater has always preferred her. She had a regular column in Playboy magazine, for which she also posed nude. For family reasons, she left the show when she was most in demand in the theater, at the age of 30. She sang with Pattacini for two more years, then she divorced him and came from the small village of Reggiano (Barco di Bibbiano) where she lived with him and their daughter Viviana, who had been entrusted to her after years of struggle with Giuseppe Berteli , the first husband.
It was at this time that she moved to Parma, where she began writing for local newspapers, particularly about her many travels around the world. Feminist and radical, mostly out of gratitude because the radical party had fought with her for custody of her daughter Viviana, who then decided to go back to her father. Tamara then met Corrado Costa, her lawyer and friend, who encouraged her to write a book of poetry Sotto identiche cose, to become part of the Intrapresa group and to write for the literary magazine Alfabeta. Then Tamara presented the book in the form of a show in Milan (at the Teatro di Porta Romana) in June 1982 with great success.
Tamara Baroni then met Gianni Garbellini, a financial manager in Milan, who later became her third husband. In 1983 their first child Ciro and in 1985 their second daughter Sara was born in Parma. Then Tamara left Italy with her husband and children to live in Brazil, a country she knew very well. She settled with her family in Natal in 1987, where her third son Marco was born the following year. Tamara, who is currently involved in real estate, had a riding school, wrote another book of poetry in Portuguese, Constelaçâo mulher, and is a member of the Academia das letras.
A few years ago she was interviewed by Pippo Baudo for the program 900 and in May 2009 by Alda d’Eusanio in Rome for the program “Ricominciare”. Now she is publishing her memoirs online, with the book blog Tamara la parmigiana.