L’orizzonte degli
eventi
Authors: Nino Benvenuti, Mauro Grimaldi, Ottavia Fusco
Squitieri
Publisher: Cairo Publishing
Language: Italian
Language: Italian
Pages: 154
ISBN-10: 8860528798
ISBN-13: 978-8860528797
Released: April 19, 2018
Not only a boxing legend. Nino Benvenuti has entered the
law in the history of Italian sport. The memory of everyone is April 17, 1967
when, on a warm spring night, eighteen million Italians, with their ears glued
to the radio listening to the chronicle of Paul Valenti, suffering, crying and
rejoicing with him for the conquest of the world middleweight title in New
York, against Emile Griffith. A great undertaking, which has become the symbol
of Italy that was growing around the economic boom, that of the sweet life of
Fellini, the one that we all envied. But for Benvenuti champion – of over 200
boxing matches between amateur and professional, Olumpic gold and best boxer in
the 1960 Olympics, five Italian titles and two Europeans among amateurs, a
European title among professionals, two world titles in two different categories,
super welterweight and middleweight - is opposed to the welcome man. A less
known aspect that, on the occasion of his eighties, Nino wanted to tell in the
first person, without using any parachute. He speaks of his family, an Istrian
exile, and of the link with his never forgotten land; of the unhappy marriage
with Giuliana with whom he had five children; of the great love for Nadia whom
he married in 1998, almost thirty years after he met her; of the relationship
he recovered with his daughter Nathalie. A river of words, sensations,
feelings. A journey back in time, the photograph of a life lived to the
fullest, where the man, beyond the extraordinary successes, turns out to be
fragile and vulnerable. Where the comparison with everyday life, once the
lights of the ring are turned off, it proves difficult. Where the errors, the
disappointments mark him and brings him to rediscover the essence of life in a
leprosarium in Madras, India. This, and much more, in this chat with friends,
made up of memories, feelings and great spontaneity.
George Hilton,
Melissa Longo, Nino Benvenuti
At Libreria
Feltrinelli Galleria Sordi book signing April 19, 2018
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