Month: March 2011

Tv Sorrisi e Canzoni and Corriere della Sera present Dentro Faber an extraordinary homage to the poetry and music of Fabrizio De André, available at newsstands from 11 March, and coinciding with the opening of the exhibition Fabrizio De André a Milano.
Dentro Faber is a definitive collection that brings together 8 DVDs, full of previously unseen material, on the life, music, experiences and passions of one of the great artists of our age.

The initiative has been organised by the Fondazione De André, thanks to the availability of unseen footage provided by Rai Trade and with the collaboration Vincenzo Mollica.

Fabrizio De André’s story is told by means of a thematic journey. In fact, each DVD, in addition to the best of his songs presented in their entirety, features the places, the encounters and first-hand accounts that mix some of the key episodes of his public persona with the most significant moments of his private life.
L’amore, Gli ultimi, Le donne, L’uomo, il potere e la guerra, Genova e Mediterraneo, Il sacro, L’anarchia and Poesia in forma di canzone are the titles of the chapters through which an attempt has been made to capture the powerful flow De André’s lyricism.

Readers will be able to go deeper into his words, listening to live concert performances of the songs and learn about his personal life through interviews with some of his songwriter friends, from Ivano Fossati to Enzo Jannacci, and members of his family, Dori Ghezzi and many others.
Accompanying this voyage of discovery of his artistic and personal development is his son, Cristiano De André, the narrator of all of the DVDs.

Each issue of the collection comes with a booklet, introduced by the critic Aldo Grasso, containing images, writings and autographs by De André.
The first part of Dentro Faber will be available at newsstands from 11 March, at the price of €10.90 (including the DVD and booklet, magazine or newspaper excluded) along with a free binder to collect the entire series. The DVDs will be released weekly.

Release dates for Dentro Faber:
11 March – L’amore (con il cofanetto in regalo)
18 March – Gli Ultimi
25 March – Le Donne
1 April – L’Uomo, il Potere e la Guerra
8 April – Genova e il Mediterraneo
15 April – Il Sacro
22 April – L’Anarchia
29 April – Poesia in Forma di Canzone

R101 has renewed its partnership with Stramilano and, for the sixth consecutive year, will cover the whole of Italy’s most famous urban sports event as the official radio.

Stramilano, now in its 40th edition, will take place on Sunday 27 March and will be anchored by Sara, the presenter of the comedy programme La Carica di 101, on the air from Monday to Friday from 7 to 10 am on R101.

R101 will accompany the 50,000 participants along the route from Piazza Duomo and Piazza Castello to the Arena Civica and will give an opportunity to 100 brave listeners – drawn from a list of users registered on www.r101.it, until 20 March – to run the Stramilano with one of the three presenters della Carica di 101, Paolo Cavallone.

R101 will also present to 100 participants exclusive Carica and Fabbrica del Sorriso gadgets, inviting people to donate €2 by sending an SMS to the number 45508. R101 is a supporter of the charity effort organised by Mediaset, Mondadori and Medusa also with the game “Il Botto alle Otto” from 20 to 27 March: at 8 in the morning, in addition to the usual €1,000 in prize-money given to listeners of the programme, the radio will donate €1,000 to the foundation.

A team of R101 staff will welcome Stramilano contestants at the rest area located on Viale di Porta Vercellina on the corner of San Vittore, with music, amusements and gadgets, to be won by participating in the games on the stage.

There will also of course be thousands of red R101 balloons for all participants in the 50,000 and the Stramilanina, for kids.

You can follow the run up to this much-anticipated event step by step on www.r101.it.

“Virtual History – Rome”, the application launched by Mondadori Digital just over a month ago, has achieved a position of extraordinary prestige among the apps for the iPad in the American market.

During yesterday’s presentation of the iPad 2, “Virtual History – Rome” was described by Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder and chief executive, as one of the “just wonderful apps” for the iPad – in a market in which there are already over 65,000 apps – and defined both the results and the definition “amazing”.

This is a recognition of Italian excellence, in this case by Mondadori Digital, that underscores the great success of the application around the world.

In fact, having climbed the hit list of iPad apps in Italy, “Virtual History – Rome“ was a hit also in other European markets – where it was recommended by the iTunes store on the home page for iPad apps in the United Kingdom, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Greece, Luxembourg, Sweden, Portugal, Norway and Holland – before beginning an authentic world tour.

Recommended by iTunes in India, Canada and New Zealand, “Virtual History – Rome”, after having reached the top of the list of best-selling apps in the “educational” category, the Mondadori Digital app went on to gain a leading position also in the American market where it is currently featured among the “What’s hot” apps on iTunes.

“Virtual History – Rome” is the first app to use “bubble viewer” technology by Applix, designed in Italy and patented in the US, which makes full use of the sensors built into the iPad (accelerometer and compass) to create a new generation of illustrations in a digital bubble form.

Thanks to this new app it is possible to witness the spectacular digital restoration of the statues of the Eternal City, be moved by a panorama of the city as it was 2000 years ago – from the Coliseum, to the Circus Maximus, the Mausoleum of Hadrian, as well as a number of sites in Pompei and Herculaneum -, explore the monuments in 3D and observe their transformation, from their original state to their current condition.

Maps and outlines of great educational value make it possible to study and understand more about the birth of Rome, the conquests and fall of the empire, engineering techniques, art, war, the spectacle of Roman civilization and profiles of the emperors.

The board of directors of Mondadori Electa S.p.A. today appointed Antonio Baravalle, an existing member of the board of the publishing house, as its new managing director.

This followed the acceptance by the board of the resignation of Martin Angioni from his position as managing director and board member in order to take up a new job.

Antonio Baravalle is also the managing director of Mondadori Education and Giulio Einaudi editore.

Mondadori Electa would like to thank Martin Angioni for his efforts and professionalism over the years at Mondadori.