Il più grande italiano di tutti i tempi

Il più grande italiano di tutti i tempi ("The greatest Italian of all times") was an Italian television show based on the British 100 Greatest Britons transmitted on Rai 2 in January and February 2010.

Leonardo da Vinci, The Greatest Italian Ever
Giuseppe Verdi, runner-up
Galileo Galilei, semifinalist
Laura Pausini, 6th place
Luigi Pirandello, 8th place
Enrico Fermi, 9th place
Dante Alighieri, 10th place

It was presented by Francesco Facchinetti and Martina Stella, in four sessions. The winner was Leonardo da Vinci. The show was widely criticized and ignored by some historians in that it focussed mainly on personalities of recent history and today's Italian world. Some key figures of Italian history were largely ignored, including every figure from Ancient Rome, Popes and other Roman Catholic clergy who had a decisive role in shaping the history of Italy. Also, the show had a very low share rate, 6%, due to the "unacceptable choice of representatives of the Italian culture such as Laura Pausini, definitely less important than genii such as Michelangelo and Donatello.

The jury
  • Italians members: Vittorio Sgarbi, Mara Venier, and Giulia Innocenzi (sessions 1, 2, 3, 4); Monica Setta (sessions 2, 3, 4); Maurizio Costanzo (session 2), Giampiero Mughini (sessions 3, 4); Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and Tinto Brass (session 1).
  • Foreign press members: A. Englisch (Germany), P. Thomas (U.S.A.), J. Grego (Great Britain), E. Jozsef (France), and C. Pelayo (Spain).

The finalists

Out of the top ten before the start of the final by web ranking.

The list

See also


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