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.
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. 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
- Leonardo da Vinci winner
- Giuseppe Verdi runner-up
- Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino semifinalists
- Galileo Galilei semifinalist
- Totò 5th place
- Laura Pausini 6th place
- Anna Magnani 7th place ex-aequo
- Luigi Pirandello 7th place ex-aequo
- Enrico Fermi 7th place ex-aequo
- Dante Alighieri 10th place for choice of the jury
Out of the top ten before the start of the final by web ranking.
The list
- Lucio Battisti
- Roberto Benigni
- Mike Bongiorno
- Caravaggio
- Giosuè Carducci
- Cristoforo Colombo
- Fausto Coppi
- Dante
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Eduardo De Filippo
- Vittorio De Sica
- Falcone and Borsellino
- Federico Fellini
- Enrico Fermi
- Enzo Ferrari
- Rosario Fiorello
- Galileo Galilei
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Vittorio Gassman
- Giotto
- Giacomo Leopardi
- Rita Levi-Montalcini
- Sofia Loren
- Anna Magnani
- Nino Manfredi
- Alessandro Manzoni
- Guglielmo Marconi
- Marcello Mastroianni
- Giuseppe Mazzini
- Michelangelo
- Mina
- Aldo Moro
- Giovanni Pascoli
- Laura Pausini
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Sandro Pertini
- Francesco Petrarca
- Luigi Pirandello
- Marco Polo
- Giacomo Puccini
- Valentino Rossi
- Alberto Sordi
- Totò
- Massimo Troisi
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Alessandro Volta