The historical jury

Ermanno Olmi

Italian movie and drama director. He was awarded the Nonino Prize in 1979 for “The Tree of Wooden Clogs” (Palme d’Or in 1978). In 1987 Silver Lion with “Long Live the Lady!” And Gold Lion in 1988 with “The Legend of the Holy Drinker”. In 2008 he received the Honorary Gold Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Ulderico Bernardi

Italian professor of Sociology of cultural practices at the Department of Economic sciences of Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. He won the Nonino Prize in 1979 for his articles published in the Corriere della Sera.
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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

He is considered one of the most important modern French historians. Director of the École pratique des hautes études in Paris, Professor of History of Modern Civilization at the Collège de France and General administrator of Paris’ Bibliothèque Nationale. He was awarded the Nonino Prize in 1992.
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James Lovelock

English chemist, independent scientist, writer and environmental researcher. He formulated the Gaia Theory. Professor of Chemistry at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, member of the Royal Society since 1974, winner of the Nonino Prize in 1996 and Companion of Honour in 2003.
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Amedeo Giacomini

Poet and writer, he is one of the major exponents of twentieth-century dialect poetry. Esteemed scholar of Romance philology, he taught Friulian language and literature at the University of Udine. He edited and translated important works from Latin and ancient and modern French. Among his works there are "V" (Scheiwiller 1978), "Sfueis" (Scheiwiller 1981).
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Piero Camporesi

Cultural historian, philologist and anthropologist, his name is among the most famous Italian essayists in the world and his books have been translated in the main European countries, in the United States, in Brazil and in Japan. He dedicated himself to cooking literature, to the symbolism of food and to the social conditions in the use of food, focusing mainly on the folklore and food culture of the eighteenth century. Among his works there are Il pane selvaggio (1980), La carne impassibile (1983), I balsami di Venere (1989) and La terra e la luna (1989).
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Gianni Brera

Journalist and writer, he made the history of sports journalism and he is responsible for the introduction of several neologisms still used today in football language. He was the director of the Gazzetta dello sport (1949-54), and he collaborated with the daily newspaper Il Giorno (1956-67) and La Repubblica (1982). A fine novelist , we remember Il corpo della ragassa (1969), La pacciada (in collaboration with L. Veronelli, 1973), Storia critica del calcio italiano (1975), L' Arcimatto(1977) and Il principe della zolla (1994).

Mario Rigoni Stern

An Italian writer, he made his debut with The Sergeant in the Snow (1953), one of the most notable literary testimonies of the Second World War, in which the author participated with the Alpine troops on the Russian front. Since 1970 he dedicated himself full time to the 'craft of writing', to cultivating the garden, to raising bees. Honorary degrees in forestry and environmental sciences and in political sciences. His books express poetic sensitivity and moral tension, historical memory and commitment to the defense of nature. His works include Ritorno sul Don (1973), The Story of Tönle (1982) and Uomini, boschi e api (1980).
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Giulio Nascimbeni

Journalist and writer, master of Italian cultural journalism, considered "the lord of the Third Page". He worked for Corriere della Sera for almost 50 years, becoming director of Domenica del Corriere in the 60s. Among his interviews for Corriere della Sera, those with Georges Simenon, Biagio Marin, Jorge Luis Borges, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alberto Moravia, Andrea Zanzotto, Alda Merini, Eugenio Montale, Leonardo Sciascia were historic. He received the Bagutta Prize and the Estense Prize with Il Calcola dei Dadi in 1984.

Morando Morandini

Film critic and historian of cinema who developed a vision of criticism as the result of an emotional and not simply intellectual perception. He was co-author and editor of the History of Cinema (1998), and author of monographs on famous directors (SM Ejzenštejn , B. Bertolucci, J. Huston). Since 1998 he linked his name to the Dizionario dei film , published annually by Zanichelli under the name of Il Morandini .

Luigi Veronelli

Gastronome, journalist, publisher, television host, philosopher and Italian anarchist. A point of reference for gastronomic culture and more, a central figure in the valorization of the Italian wine heritage. His friendship with Gianni Brera and Mario Soldati, and his collaboration with Luigi Carnacina, were fundamental. He wrote for Il Giorno, Panorama, L'Espresso, Corriere della sera, La gazzetta dello sport. From 1975 to 1979 Veronelli directed Vini&Liquori, in 1986 he published the Catalogo Veronelli dei vini d'Italia. He stood out for his metaphorical and provocative style, and for educating generations to good eating and drinking, on the basis of respect, knowledge and pleasure.

Father David Maria Turoldo

Writer, poet and essayist. He intervened in the cultural, social and religious life of the country with his prophetic impetuosity. Because of his open positions he experienced estrangement from Milan and exile. Upon his return to Italy at the Madonna delle Grazie in Udine he wrote the screenplay and produced the film Gli ultimi directed by Vito Pandolfi. Among his works we remember: Mia infanzia d'oro (1991).

Raymond Klibansky

Historian of medieval philosophy, his studies focused mainly on Cusano and Eckhart. An activist for tolerance and dialogue, he was awarded the “Grand Cross of Merit” by the President of the German Republic. Famous for Saturn and Melancholy (1983 Einaudi), written in collaboration with E. Panofsky and F. Sax, a masterly work that has become a classic in the history of philosophy, science and art. Refugee in Great Britain to escape the Nazi occupation, he was a key figure in saving several writings from the Warburg library, giving life to the Warburg Institute in London, one of the world's leading centers for the study of art and culture.
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Jorge Amado

The most famous and translated Brazilian writer in the world, an extraordinary interpreter of the Brazilian popular universe. His communist militancy, together with his writings characterized by an active social and political commitment, earned him prison and exile several times. The novel Jubiabá (1935) marked a fundamental stage in the history of the Brazilian novel for its lyrical realism. Dedicated to Bahia and its people and characterized by an ironic and picaresque style are the novels Doña Flor and Her Two Husbands (1966), Tent of Miracles (1969), Tieta (1977). In 1972 he wrote what can be considered his masterpiece, a manifesto ante litteram (ahead of his time) of women's liberation: Tereza Batista: Home from the wars (1988).
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