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Serena Dandini (born 22 April 1954) is an Italian television presenter, writer and author.

Serena Dandini
Dandini in 2014
Born
Rome, Italy

Career

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Dandini was born and raised in Rome, as the daughter of Count Francesco Lorenzo Dandini De Sylva, a lawyer and descendant of an ancient family of Roman nobility; and of the Marchioness Silvia Vaccari, sister of the founder of the Vaccari Institute.[1][2][3][4] After studying at the Giulio Cesare classical high school she enrolled at the Sapienza University of Rome in the Anglo-American literature course, stopping three exams before her graduation to begin her career on the radio at the end of the seventies.[5]

From the early 1980s, she collaborated with RAI on television and radio programs.[6] She is the creator on Radio 2 of The Life of Mae West, where she worked with Laura Betti.

In 1995 she hosted the Sanremo Music Festival 1995, with Luciano De Crescenzo, Fabio Fazio and Gianni Ippoliti.[7]

Beginning in 2001 she was artistic director of the Teatro Ambra Jovinelli in Rome.[8] She was on the jury of the Sanremo Music Festival 2013.

From 2004 to 2011 she hosted her first talk show on Rai 3, Parla con me (Talk to me), conceived with the journalist Andrea Salerno, and including regular segments by among others presenter and journalist Diego Bianchi.[9][10]

She was the host of The States General, a satire television show, which returned in 2019.[11]

She is the author of Vieni avanti, cretina (Come on, you idiot!),[12] and Sisters Don't Sleep, about gender-based violence.[13]

Personal life

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Dandini has been married twice, and since 1993 she has been romantically linked to musician Lele Marchitelli.[14] She has a daughter, Adele Tulli, born in 1982 (director of the documentary 365 without 377 on the battles of the LGBT movement in India for the abolition of section 377 of the Indian penal code).[15]

Her sister Saveria Dandini de Sylva is President of the Leonarda Vaccari Institute.[16] Her brother Ferdinando is an aeronautical engineer and currently a lecturer at Luiss Guido Carli and the University of Tor Vergata in Rome.[17]

Bibliography

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  • Lorenzo e la maturità. Come secernere agli esami, con Corrado Guzzanti, Milano, BUR senzafiltro, 2005, ISBN 88-17-00584-3.
  • Amo, con Neri Marcorè, Milano, BUR senzafiltro, 2006, ISBN 88-17-00938-5.
  • Parla con me. on Dvd, Milano, BUR, 2007, ISBN 978-88-17-01699-5.
  • L'ottavo nano. on 5 Dvd (versione integrale del programma), Milano, BUR, 2009, ISBN 978-88-17-02379-5.
  • Dai diamanti non nasce niente. Storie di vita e di giardini, Milano, Rizzoli, 2011, ISBN 978-88-17-04867-5.
  • Grazie per quella volta. Confessioni di una donna difettosa, Milano, Rizzoli, 2012, ISBN 978-88-17-05818-6.
  • Ferite a morte, collaborazione ai testi e alle ricerche di Maura Misiti, Milano, Rizzoli, 2013, ISBN 978-88-17-06561-0.
  • Il futuro di una volta, Milano, Rizzoli, 2015, ISBN 978-88-17-07268-7.
  • Avremo sempre Parigi. Passeggiate sentimentali in disordine alfabetico, Milano, Rizzoli, 2016, ISBN 978-88-17-09020-9.
  • Il catalogo delle donne valorose, Milano, Rizzoli, 2018, ISBN 978-88-0468-765-8.
  • La vasca del Führer, Torino, Einaudi, 2020, ISBN 978-88-06-24282-4.

References

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  1. '^ La presentatrice Serena Dandini, il cui cognome per intero è Dandini de Sylva, decorata dei titoli di Conte (m), Patrizio Romano Coscritto (mpr), Nob. di Ancona (mf), Patr. di Cesena (m), Nob. di Bologna (mf), Nob. di Ravenna (mf) e Nob. dei Conti (f). Dalla voce Dandini de Sylva dellAnnuario della Nobiltà Italiana, XXXI edizione (2010), volume I
  2. ^ "Serena Dandini: la regina della satira TV". CineTivù.com. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
  3. ^ Intervista a Che tempo che fa del 27 novembre 2010.
  4. ^ https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/listituto-vaccari-apre-bibliobar-gestito-disabili-e-aperto.html
  5. ^ Puntata di Parla con me del 16/12/2010.
  6. ^ "Serena Bortone per FQMagazine: "Bilancio di 'Oggi è un altro giorno'? Positivo. Ma non mi piace l'espressione 'sporcarsi le mani'..."". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). 2021-05-07. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  7. ^ "Serena promette allegria al Dopofestival". 2015-11-27. Archived from the original on 2015-11-27. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  8. ^ "La Dandini regina dell' Ambra Jovinelli". 2013-03-31. Archived from the original on 2013-03-31. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  9. ^ "Dandini, "Parla con me": «Nè vittime nè martiri»". Il Secolo XIX (in Italian). 2010-09-27. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
  10. ^ "Diego Bianchi a La7, Zoro e Makkox lasciano Rai3. La "banda" di Gazebo raggiunge Andrea Salerno". 5 June 2017.
  11. ^ Pertuso, Patrizia (November 18, 2019). "Serena Dandini riconvoca Gli Stati Generali". Metro. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  12. ^ "Donne, Serena Dandini: "Prendetevi la libertà di essere cretine"". Dire.it (in Italian). 2021-05-09. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
  13. ^ "A Discussion of Gender-Based Violence With Italian Author and TV Host Serena Dandini". The World Bank. November 13, 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  14. ^ FINIRE QUI? 'NON ESISTE PROPRIO' - Repubblica.it » Ricerca
  15. ^ India, 365 giorni di orgoglio Tre storie "fuori legge" - Repubblica.it
  16. ^ 1- CHE CI FA UNA RADICAL-CHIC COME SERENA DANDINI IN MEZZO A UNA DELLE
  17. ^ Expanding the Horizons of Payment System Development Roma 2012 Archived 2012-06-04 at the Wayback Machine