"Interviewer: Which Sicilian writer do you love the most? Baudo: There are many, from Capuana to Verga, whose I Malavoglia I love very much. Then there is Pirandello, before whom one should kneel. And how can we forget Leonardo Sciascia? I knew him personally and we had a good friendship; I spent days with him. He was shy. I remember once I had to present an event in Mondello to award him and he asked me if there was a way to do it without doing it publicly. It was hard to convince him to go on stage! He was the one who discovered Tomasi di Lampedusa. He called Sellerio, a publishing house in Palermo, which published his book."
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Pippo Baudo
Giuseppe Raimondo Vittorio "Pippo" Baudo (7 June 1936 – 16 August 2025) was an Italian television presenter. One of the most notable in his native country, he had a career spanning six decades, which included 13 editions of the Sanremo Music Festivalthe highest number for a single presenter.
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