Sergio Zavoli: Master of Television Style and Language (Le Bitte Vol. 1) (Italian Edition)

Sergio Zavoli: A Master Journalist's Investigations, Style, and Passions

In the 20th century, few men of culture in Italy could boast a production of articles, books, radio, and television programs as significant as Sergio Zavoli's. From Fascism to the Polesine flood, from terrorism to Tangentopoli, from cloistered nuns to the memoirs of Bettino Craxi, from the birth of the Second Republic to its agony, the writer-journalist from Ravenna and adopted Riminese has recorded more than sixty years of the small and great history of our country.

Zavoli was always an experimenter in all his transitions, radio and television. He was a great journalist who was very attentive to the correctness of information and the classic principles of the journalistic profession. Throughout his career, he literally invented great innovations in sports journalism with "Processo alla tappa," which changed the narrative of cycling in Italy, and with "Clausura," an important documentary that contributed significantly to documentary radio journalism. He introduced groundbreaking experimentation with "Nascita di una dittatura" and "La notte della Repubblica."

Zavoli has recounted the history and chronicles of our country, as well as sports and social transformations. His programs radically changed the way Italians viewed mental illness, terrorism, school, Fascism, and democracy. He was one of the architects of Italian radio before moving to television, later returning to radio in the 1970s as director of GR1 and then becoming president of RAI.

At the dawn of the new millennium, Zavoli contributed to politics in the Senate chamber and discovered himself as a poet (he was called "the poet of chiaroscuro"), but his life remained the "diary of a chronicler," a profession to be protected from the powers that would seek to limit it.

Journalist, writer, poet, scholar, and leading figure of RAI, Sergio Zavoli's life was rich, long, and complex. This book features 10 unpublished interviews and a recollection by his daughter Valentina, offering a unique insight into the passions and style of a master of Italian journalism.

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