Paolo Pietrangeli, the famous author of Contessa, died

He dies at the age of 76 Paolo Pietrangeli, author of the famous political anthem Contessa that accompanied the season of the sixties and seventies. The news was released by the secretary of the Communist Refoundation Maurizio Acerbo, rekindling the lights on the life of an author who began writing songs with a socio-political background early in his career, many of which became extremely popular within leftist youth movements such as Valle Giulia and, in fact, Contessa, both recorded with the second voice of Giovanna Marini.

In 1974, Paolo Pietrangeli made his debut as a director with a documentary with a strong political impact entitled Black and white, which describes the microcosm of neo-fascism by denouncing collusion between a part of the state and various subversive sectors of the far right. In 1977 he directs Pigs with wings “, while three years later he is directing de The days sung, in which Francesco Guccini also participates as an interpreter. In the following years he left the cinema to devote himself full time to television, making several successful programs such as Maurizio Costanzo Show, You’ve Got Mail e Friends of Maria De Filippi.

«More than twenty years together with the Maurizio Costanzo Show, then a fiction that was called Orazio, and he was there too. A piece of life goes away. I will be left with the sly and witty look and that sense of tranquility that it gave me when he was directing “, dice Costanzo a Republic. “He was cheerful, ironic: what I needed. A glance was enough to understand each other, I never had to tell him anything ».