Aldo Dalla Vecchia’s “Irresistibili”

Aldo Dalla Vecchia has accustomed us to these agile manuals filled with little treats, sort of Sperlari boxes full of delicious sweets.

“Irresistibili” is the latest in the series. It has the subtitle “70 women who made the small screen great”, it is prefaced by Silvana Giacobini and illustrated by Artificial Intelligence. Seventy women, in alphabetical order, like seventy are the years of television, between state and commercial television. Dalla Vecchia, who is young and has not lived through them all, is, however, as we know, in love and has a deep knowledge of them, as a creator of programs as well as a writer.

The women he talks about are certainly not all those who have been on television from the beginning to today, but are the result of his personal choice. Each portrait pill is a brief biographical note — no gossip, just profession — combined with the author’s very sweet personal memories.

Seventy essential figures, sacred monsters like Raffaella Carrà, Loretta Goggi, Mina or Sandra Mondaini, prominent figures like Milly Carlucci and Alba Parietti, show girls like Lorella Cuccarini, journalists like Lilli Gruber. Women who have made and are still making television. Women who are no longer young, women who have unfortunately left us, women who are riding the crest of the wave and will remain there for who knows how long…