Antonio Padellaro

"Finally, I had followed the surprising career of Piersanti Mattarella [brother of the Italian President Mattarella]. His career developed in the shadow of his powerful father Bernardo, who was a minister several times and a great collector of votes and friendships, some of which were compromising, in Castellammare del Golfo, in western Sicily, home to the most ruthless mafia. [...] We must not betray our origins if they have brought us privileges and benefits. And Piersanti had unfortunately forgotten that he was the eldest son of Bernardo and his vows."

"There are those who reproach q:it:Massimo Fini for squandering his enormous talent, as if talent could be used for anything other than squandering it. He did so in the only way permitted to a true journalist: through the right reading, through writing, through the integrity of his ideas. But above all, by relying on the immeasurable ignorance of his colleagues. [...] I would have loved to have been friends with Massimo Fini in the 1970s and breathe in the exhilaration of that joyful and unknown journalism, which is not a job but a gift from the gods, accompanied by the amazement that at the end of the month they even pay you."

"Leonardo Pieraccioni, whom an unexpectedly controversial Carlo Verdone has called a “comedian of nothing.”"

"Here is the latest from the master [Roberto Benigni] who, in terms of box office predictions, has to contend with his pupil, assuming that Vergaio's jester has anything in common, apart from his Tuscan origins, with the big kid Pieraccioni."

"(About the film Life Is Beautiful}} Instead of relying on a lazy rehash of himself, Benigni has decided to perform like an acrobat, oops, on the reckless tightrope of the comic-tragic."